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THE  SANITARY  CODE  OF  THE  BOARD  OF 

HEALTH  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT 

OF  HEALTH 

OF  THE 

CITY  OF  NEW  YORK 


The  Sanitary  Code  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the 
Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York 
revised  and  amended  by  the  said  Board  and  filed,  as 
thus  revised  and  amended,  with  the  City  Clerk  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of 
Section  1172  of  the  Greater  New  York  Charter. 

Revised  and  amended  December  31st,  1914. 

Filed,  as  thus  revised  and  amended,  with  the  City 
Clerk  on  April  9,  1915. 

With  the  amendments  and  additional  provisions  added, 
and  filed  with  the  City  Clerk,  to  May  15,  1920. 


THE    SANITARY    CODE 


Constituting  Chapter  20  of  the  Code  of  Ordinances 
of  the  City  of  New  York. 

BE  IT  RESOLVED  by  the  Board  of  Health  of 
the  Department  of  Health  of  The  City  of  New  York 
that,  by  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  the  said  Board 
by  the  provisions  of  Section  1172  of  the  Greater  New  York 


4  Section   1 

Charter,  the  Sanitary  Code  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the 
Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York  be  gen- 
erally revised  and  amended,  and  made  to  read  as  follows: 


Article    1. 

Definitions. 

Article    2. 

Animals. 

Article    3. 

Births,  marriages  and  deaths. 

Article    4. 

Buildings. 

Article    5. 

Cold  Storage. 

Article    6. 

Medical  examiners. 

Article    7. 

Diseases. 

Article    8. 

Drugs  and  medicines. 

Article    9. 

Food  and  drink. 

Article  10. 

General  provisions. 

Article  11. 

Midwifery  and  care  of  children. 

Article  12. 

Miscellaneous  provisions. 

Article  13. 

Offensive  materials. 

Article  14. 

Plumbing,  drainage,  and  sewerage. 

Article  15. 

Railroad  cars  and  other  public  vehicles. 

Article  16. 

Street  conditions. 

Article  17. 

Trades,  occupations  and  businesses. 

Article  18. 

Vessels  and  seamen. 

ARTICLE   I. 

Definitions. 

Sec.  1.  Definitions.  Unless  otherwise  expressly 
stated,  wherever  used  in  the  Sanitary  Code,  the  following 
terms  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and  include: 

1.  "Ashes":  cinders,  coal,  and  every  other  substance 
which  is  left  unconsumed  by  fire  in  stoves,  furnaces, 
ranges,  fire-pots,  fireplaces,  and  other  such  places. 

2.  "Bakeries":  all  buildings,  rooms,  or  places  used 
or   occupied  for   the  purpose   of  making,   preparing,   or 


Section  1  5 

baking  bread,  biscuits,  pastry,  cake,  doughnuts,  crullers, 
noodles,  macaroni,  or  spaghetti,  to  be  sold  or  consumed 
on  or  off  the  premises,  except  kitchens  in  hotels,  restau- 
rants, boarding-houses,  or  private  residences ,  wherein 
such  products  are  prepared  to  be  used  and  are  used 
exclusively  on  the  premises. 

3.  "Board"  and  "said  Board":  the  Board  of  Health 
of  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

4.  "Boarding-house":  every  building  or  part  thereof 
other  than  a  hotel,  inn,  or  lodging-house,  wherein  meals 
or  lodging,  or  both,  may  be  obtained  for  hire  (customarily 
by  the  week). 

5.  "Butcher":  whoever  is  engaged  in  the  business 
of  keeping,  driving,  or  slaughtering  cattle,  or  in  selling 
any  meat. 

6.  "Cattle":  all  animals,  except  birds,  fowl,  and  fish, 
of  which  any  part  of  the  body  is  used  as  food. 

7.  "Cellar":  every  basement  or  lower  story  of  any 
building  or  house  of  which  said  basement  or  lower  story 
one-half  or  more  of  the  height  from  the  floor  to  the  ceil- 
ing is  below  the  level  of  the  street  adjoining,  or  the  surface 
of  the  adjacent  yard,  court,  or  ground. 

8.  "Department":  the  Department  of  Health  of  the 
City  of  Xew  York. 

9.  "Dirt":  natural  soil,  earth,  gravel,  sand,  and 
loose  pieces  of  broken  stone. 

10.  "Factory"  and  "manufactory":  any  mill,  work- 
shop, or  other  manufacturing  or  business  establish- 
ment, and  all  buildings,  shops,  and  structures,  or  other 
places  used  therefor  or  in  connection  therewith,  where 
one  or  more  persons  are  employed  at  labor. 

11.  "Fish":  every  part  of  any  animal  that  lives  in 
water  or  the  flesh  of  which  is  not  meat. 

12.  "Food":     all   substances,    except   drugs,   used   or 


6  Section  1 

intended  to  be  used  for  human  consumption,  including 
meat,  fish,  vegetables,  drink,  confections,  and  condiments, 
whether  simple,  mixed  or  compound. 

13.  "Garbage":  swill  and  every  accumulation  of 
both  animal  and  vegetable  matter,  liquid  or  otherwise, 
that  attends  the  preparation,  decay  and  dealing  in,  or 
storage  of  meats,  fish,  fowls,  birds,  or  vegetables. 

14.  "Infectious  disease":  all  diseases  of  a  com- 
municable, contagious,  or  pestilential  nature. 

15.  "Light"    or    "Lighted":     natural,    external   light. 

16.  "Lodging-house":  any  house  or  building  or 
portion  thereof,  in  which  persons  are  harbored,  or  received, 
or  lodged,  for  hire  for  a  single  night,  or  for  less  than  a 
week  at  one  time,  or  any  part  of  which  is  let  for  any  person 
to  sleep  in,  for  any  term  less  than  a  week. 

17.  "Meat":  every  part  of  any  land  animal,  and 
eggs   (whether  mixed  or  not  with  any  other  substance). 

18.  "Permit":  the  permission  in  writing  of  the 
Board  of  Health,  issued  according  to  the  provisions 
of  this  Code,  of  any  statute,  or  of  the  Regulations  of 
the  Board  of  Health. 

19.  "Person":  every  individual,  corporation,  firm, 
and  joint  stock  association. 

20.  "Physician":  every  person  who  holds  himself 
out  as  being  able  to  diagnose,  treat,  operate,  or  prescribe 
for  any  human  disease,  pain,  injury,  deformity,  or  physical 
condition,  and  who  shall  either  offer  or  undertake  by  any 
means  or  method,  to  diagnose,  treat,  operate,  or  prescribe 
for  any  human  disease,  pain,  injury,  deformity,  or  physical 
condition. 

21.  "Private  market":  every  store,  cellar,  stand, 
and  place  (not  being  a  part  of  a  public  market),  at  or 
in  which  meat,  fish,  or  vegetables  is  or  are  bought,  sold, 
or  kept  for  sale. 


Section  1  7 

22.  "Public  laundry":  any  place  where  articles 
are  laundered  for  the  general  public  for  hire. 

23.  "Public  place":  every  street  (as  hereinafter 
defined),  park,  pier,  dock  and  wharf,  and  every  open 
space  therewith  connected;  all  waters  within  the  juris- 
diction of  the  City  of  New  York;  every  public  yard, 
ground,  and  area;  every  space  open  to  the  public  between 
a  building  and  the  street,  between  buildings,  and  between 
streets;  all  places  of  public  assemblage,  including  every 
place  of  public  worship,  amusement,  entertainment, 
or  instruction,  and  every  place  where  an  appreciable 
number  of  persons  gather  for  any  purpose  whatever, 
and  every  public  room  or  space  connected  with,  and 
every  means  of  entrance  to  or  exit  from,  any  of  the  said 
places;  all  places  and  premises  where  goods,  wares,  and 
merchandise  are  sold  or  offered  for  sale,  including  all 
public  rooms  or  places  therewith  connected;  every 
railroad  car,  and  every  other  public  vehicle;  every  rail- 
road depot,  station,  and  platform,  and  every  public  room 
or  space  connected  therewith,  and  every  stairway  and 
other  means  of  entrance  thereto  or  exit  therefrom;  every 
ferry-boat  and  ferry-house,  and  every  public  room  or 
space  connected  with,  and  every  means  of  entrance  to 
or  exit  from,  such  ferry-house. 

24.  "Refuse":  waste  material  other  than  rubbish, 
ashes,  or  garbage,  that  attends  use  or  decay  and  accumu- 
lation from  the  occupancy  of  buildings  or  premises. 

25.  "Report":  a  report  in  writing,  signed  by  the 
person  who  makes  the  same  and  indicating  his  official 
position,  if  any  such  position  be  held. 

26.  "Rubbish":  solid  waste  material  accumulating  or 
resulting  from  the  use  or  occupancy  of  buildings  or  prem- 
ises, such  as  paper,  straw,  excelsior,  rags,  bottles,  old  clothes, 
old  shoes,  tin  cans,  and  other  materials  of  a  similar  character. 


8  Section  1 

27.  "Saloon":  every  portion  of  any  building  in 
which  the  business  of  selling  meals,  liquors,  drinks,  or 
refreshments  of  any  kind,  shall  be  conducted,  including 
"concert  saloons." 

28.  "Stable":  every  building  or  portion  thereof  in 
which  any  horse,  cattle,  or  other  animal  shall  be  kept. 

29.  "Streets":  avenues,  public  highways,  sidewalks, 
gutters,  and  public  alleys,  lanes,  and  paths. 

30.  "Theatre":  the  building,  room,  and  place,  where 
any  play,  concert,  opera,  circus,  trick  or  jugglery  show, 
gymnastic  or  other  exhibition,  masquerade,  public  dance, 
or  other  public  gathering,  drill,  lecture,  address,  or  other 
form  of  public  entertainment,  amusement,  or  instruction 
are,  is,  or  may  be  held,  given,  furnished,  performed,  or 
take  place,  and  every  public  room  or  space  connected 
with,  and  every  means  of  entrance  to  or  exit  from  any 
such  place. 

31.  "Vegetable":  every  article  used  for  human 
consumption  as  food,  other  than  meat,  fish,  or  milk. 

32.  "Day  Nursery":  a  place  where  more  than  three 
children  are  received,  kept,  and  cared  for  during  the  day 
time.  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  30, 
1915.) 

33.  "Milk":  the  whole,  fresh,  clean,  lacteal  secre- 
tion obtained  by  the  complete  milking  of  one  or  more 
healthy  cows,  properly  fed  and  kept,  excluding  that 
obtained  fifteen  days  before  and  five  days  after  calving, 
or  such  longer  period  as  may  be  necessary  to  render  the 
milk  practically  colostrum-free: 

34.  "Skirnrned-Milk" :  is  clean,  pure,  healthy,  whole- 
some and  unadulterated  milk,  from  which  substantially 
all  milk  fat  has  been  removed. 

35.  "Cream":  is  that  portion  of  clean,  pure,  healthy, 
wholesome   and   unadulterated   milk,    rich   in    milk   fat, 


Section  1  9 

which  rises  to  the  surface  of  milk  on  standing  or  is  sepa- 
rated from  it  by  centrifugal  force. 

36.  "Condensed  Milk,  Evaporated  Milk,  or  Con- 
centrated Milk":  is  the  product  resulting  from  the 
evaporation  of  a  considerable  portion  of  the  water  from 
clean,  pure,  healthy,  wholesome  and  unadulterated  milk. 

37.  "Sweetened  Condensed  Milk,  Sweetened  Evapo- 
rated Milk,  or  Sweetened  Concentrated  Milk":  is  the 
product  resulting  from  the  evaporation  of  a  considerable 
portion  of  water  from  clean,  pure,  healthy,  wholesome 
and  unadulterated  milk,  to  which  sugar  (sucrose)  has 
been  added. 

38.  "Condensed  Skimmed-Milk,  Evaporated  Skim- 
med-Milk,  or  Concentrated  Skimmed-Milk":  is  the 
product  resulting  from  the  evaporation  of  a  considerable 
portion  of  water  from  clean,  pure,  healthy,  wholesome 
and  unadulterated  skimmed-milk. 

39.  "Sweetened  Condensed  Skimmed-Milk,  Evapo- 
rated Condensed  Skimmed-Milk,  or  Concentrated  Con- 
densed Skimmed-Milk":  is  the  product  resulting  from 
the  evaporation  of  a  considerable  portion  of  water  from 
clean,  pure,  healthy,  wholesome  and  unadulterated 
skimmed-milk,  to  which  sugar  (sucrose)  has  been  added. 

40.  "Dried-Milk":  is  the  product  resulting  from 
the  removal  of  the  water  from  clean,  pure,  healthy, 
wholesome  and  unadulterated  milk. 

41.  "Dried-Skimmed-Milk" :  is  the  product  result- 
ing from  the  removal  of  the  water  from  clean,  pure, 
healthy,  wholesome  and  unadulterated  skimmed-milk. 

42.  "Modified  Milk":  is  clean,  pure,  healthy,  whole- 
some and  unadulterated  milk,  which  has  been  changed 
by  the  addition  of  water,  sugar-of-milk,  cr  other  sub- 
stance intended  to  render  the  mi.11:  suitable  for  infant 
feeding. 


10  Article  2 

43.  "Reconstituted-Milk" :  is  a  product  which  is 
mechanically  and  exclusively  made  from  milk  solids 
not  fat,  milk  fats  containing  all  the  properties  of  milk  fats 
in  milk,  and  water,  in  appropriate  proportions  and  having 
all  the  recognized  characteristics  of  milk. 

44.  "Reconstituted-Cream":  is  a  product  which  is 
mechanically  and  exclusively  made  from  milk  solids  not 
fat,  milk  fats  containing  all  the  properties  of  milk  fats  in 
milk,  and  water,  in  approporate  proportions  and  having 
all  the  recognized  characteristics  of  cream. 

45.  "Buttermilk":  is  the  product  that  remains  when 
butter  is  removed  from  clean,  pure,  healthy,  wholesome 
and  unadulterated  milk  or  cream  in  the  process  of  churning. 

46.  "Malted-Milk" :  is  the  product  made  by  com- 
bining clean,  pure,  healthy,  wholesome  and  unadulterated 
milk  with  the  liquid  separated  from  a  mash  of  ground 
barley,  malt  and  wheat  flour,  with  or  without  the  addition 
of  sodium  chloride,  sodium  bicarbonate  and  potassium 
bicarbonate,  in  such  manner  as  to  secure  the  full  enzymic 
action  of  the  malt  extract  and  by  removing  water. 

47.  "Pestilential  Disease":  Shall  be  deemed  to  include 
the  conditions  and  symptoms  resulting  from  the  habitual 
use  of  habit-forming  drugs,  and  known  as  drug  addiction. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  22,  1919.) 

Note:  Subdivision  1  to  31,  adopted  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  December  31,  1914.  Subdivisions  33  to  46, 
adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  November  27,  1918.) 

ARTICLE   2. 

Animals. 

Sec.    2.     Glanders, . farcy,  and  other  contagious  diseases; 
duty  of  veterinary  surgeon  to  report. 


Article  2  11 

Sec.    3.     Glanders,  farcy,  and  other  contagious  diseases; 

animals  suffering  therefrom  not  to  be  retained 

or  exposed;    destruction  authorized. 
Sec.     4.     Animals    suffering    from    or    exposed    to    con- 
tagious diseases  not  to  be  brought  into  or 

kept  in  city. 
Sec.    5.     Animal    injured    or    diseased    beyond    recovery 

and  abandoned,  to  be  destroyed. 
Sec.    6.     Animals    injured    or    diseased    past    recovery, 

dead,    or    affected    with    an    infectious    or 

contagious     disease     to     be     reported     and 

removed. 
Sec.    7.     Dead,  sick,  or  injured  animals;    interference  by 

unauthorized  persons  prohibited. 
Sec.    S.     Dead,    sick,    or    injured    animals;      conditions 

dangerous  to  life  or  detrimental  to  health 

prohibited. 
Sec.    9.     Dead  horses;     to  be  tagged   before  placing  in 

street. 
Sec.  10.     Rabid    and    vicious   animals;     Department    of 

Health  to  be  notified;    destruction  author- 
ized;   removal  regulated. 
Sec.  11.     Horses,  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  geese,  and  goats; 

not  to  be  kept  or  yarded  without  a  permit. 
Sec.  12.     Keeping  of  cows  regulated. 
Sec.  13.     Tuberculin  test  of  cows;    certificate. 
Sec.  14.     Cattle;    adequate  ventilation,  proper  food  and 

water  to  be  provided. 
Sec.  15.     Cattle;      method    of    transporting    in    vehicles 

restricted. 
Sec.  16.     Shelter     for     homeless     animals;     site     to     be 

approved;    conduct  thereof  regulated. 
Sec.  17.     Unmuzzled  dogs;    not  permitted  in  any  public 

place. 


12  Sections  2  and  3 


Sale  of  small  animals  regulated. 

Live  chickens,   geese,   ducks,   and  other  fowls; 

the  keeping,  killing,  and  sale  regulated. 
Keeping  of  live  pigeons  regulated. 
Horses  to  be  tested  for  glanders. 


Sec. 

18. 

Sec. 

19. 

Sec. 

20. 

Sec. 

21. 

Sec.  2.  Glanders,  farcy,  and  other  contagious  dis- 
eases; duty  of  veterinary  surgeon  to  report. — Every 
veterinary  surgeon  who  shall  examine  or  professionally 
attend  any  animal  in  the  City  of  New  York  affected  with 
glanders,  or  farcy,  or  any  other  contagious  disease,  shall, 
immediately  upon  the  discovery  of  such  veterinary  surgeon 
that  such  animal  is  thus  affected,  report  in  writing  to  the 
Department  of  Health  the  location  of  such  diseased 
animal,  the  name  and  address  of  the  owner  thereof,  and 
the  type  and  character  of  the  disease.      (S.  C.  Sec.  127.) 

Sec.  3.  Glanders,  farcy,  and  other  contagious  dis- 
eases; animals  suffering  therefrom  not  to  be  retained 
or  exposed;  destruction  authorized. — No  person  shall 
keep  or  retain,  or  cause  or  allow  to  be  kept  or  retained, 
at  any  place  in  the  City  of  New  York,  any  animal  affected 
with  glanders  or  farcy,  or  any  other  contagious  disease, 
but  shall,  immediately  upon  his  or  her  discovery  that  such 
animal  is  thus  affected,  report  the  fact  and  the  location 
of  such  animal  to  the  Department  of  Health. 

The  Sanitary  Superintendent,  an  Assistant  Sanitary 
Superintendent,  or  the  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  In- 
fectious Diseases,  of  the  Department  of  Health,  shall 
cause  every  such  animal  to  be  promptly  isolated  or  killed, 
and,  if  killed,  the  body  thereof  to  be  promptly  removed 
and  disposed  of,  in  such  manner  as  he  shall  designate. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  125.) 


Sections  4,  5  and  6  13 

Sec.  4.  Animals  suffering  from  or  exposed  to  con- 
tagious diseases  not  to  be  brought  into  or  kept  in  city. — 
No  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  horses,  dogs,  or  cats,  which  are 
affected  with  or  have  been  exposed  to  any  disease  which 
is  contagious  among  such  animals,  shall  be  brought  into 
or  kept  in  the  City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  124.) 

Sec.  5.  Animal  injured  or  diseased  beyond  recovery 
and  abandoned,  to  be  destroyed. — Any  animal,  in  any 
street  or  public  place  within  or  adjacent  to  the  built-up 
portion  of  the  City  of  New  York,  appearing,  in  the  opinion 
of  any  officer  or  inspector  of  the  Department  of  Health 
(and  that  of  two  citizens,  requested  by  such  officer  or 
inspector  to  view,  in  his  presence,  the  said  animal),  to  be 
so  injured  or  diseased  as  to  preclude  the  possibility  of 
such  animal  thereafter  serving  any  useful  purpose,  and 
not  being  properly  cared  for,  may,  if  not  removed  within 
one  hour  after  being  found  in  such  condition  by  the  said 
officer  or  inspector,  be  destroyed  by  or  according  to  the 
direction  of  the  said  officer  or  inspector.      (S.  C.  Sec.  129.) 

Sec.  6.  Animals  injured  or  diseased  past  recovery, 
dead,  or  affected  with  an  infectious  or  contagious  disease 
to  be  reported  and  removed. — Any  person  owning  or 
having  in  his  charge  or  under  his  control  an  animal 
injured  or  diseased  past  recovery,  or  dead,  and  not  killed 
for  or  proper  for  use  as  food,  or  affected  with  an  infectious 
or  contagious  disease,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  shall, 
immediately  upon  discovering  or  learning  such  fact, 
notify  the  Department  of  Health  thereof,  and  shall, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Sanitary  Superintendent,  an 
xA.ssistant  Sanitary  Superintendent,  or  the  Director  of 
the  Bureau  of  Infectious  Diseases,  of  the  Department 
of  Health,  or  an  officer  of  the  Police  Department,  remove 
or  cause  the  removal  of  such  animal  to  such  place  as  such 
official  shall  designate.      (S.  C.  Sec.  130.) 


14  Sections  7,  8,  9  and  10 

Sec.  7.  Dead,  sick,  or  injured  animals;  interference 
by  unauthorized  persons  prohibited. — No  person  other 
than  a  police  officer  or  an  inspector  or  officer  of  the 
Department  of  Health,  or  other  person  authorized  by 
law  so  to  do,  shall,  in  any  way  interfere  with  any  dead, 
sick,  or  injured  animal  in  any  street  or  public  place  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  except  that  the  owner  or  person 
having  control  of  such  animal  may  terminate  its  life  in 
the  presence  and  by  the  consent  of  any  such  officer, 
inspector,  or  person.      (S.  C.  Sec.  131.) 

Sec.  8.  Dead,  sick,  or  injured  animals;  conditions 
dangerous  to  life  or  detrimental  to  health  prohibited. — 
No  person  shall  leave  in  or  throw  into  any  street  or 
public  place,  or  public  water,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
or  offensively  expose  or  bury,  anywhere  in  the  said  City, 
the  body  (or  any  part  thereof)  of  any  dead,  sick,  or  in- 
jured animal;  nor  shall  any  person  keep  any  dead  animal 
or  any  offensive  meat,  bird,  fowl,  or  fish,  in  a  place  where 
the  same  may  be  dangerous  to  the  life  or  detrimental  to 
the  health  of  any  person.      (S.  C.  Sec.  128.) 

Sec.  9.  Dead  horses;  to  be  tagged  before  placing 
in  street. — All  dead  horses,  before  being  placed  in  the 
street,  must  bear  a  tag  giving  the  name  and  address  of 
the  owner  thereof  and  the  stable  from  which  the  •  horse 
is  removed.       (S.  C.  Sec.  126.) 

Sec.  10.  Rabid  and  vicious  animals;  Department 
of  Health  to  be  notified;  destruction  authorized;  re- 
moval regulated. — Every  animal  that  has  rabies  or  that 
shows  symptoms  of  rabies,  and  every  animal  that  has  been 
bitten  by  another  animal  affected  with  rabies,  or  has  been 
otherwise  exposed  to  such  disease  shall,  by  the  person 
owning  the  same  or  having  possession  thereof,  be  at  once 
confined  in  some  secure  place  for  such  length  of  time  as 
may  be  necessary  for  the  purpose  of  determining  whether 


Section  11  15 

such  disease  exists  or  showing  that  such  exposure  has  not 
given  such  animal  said  disease,  and  of  avoiding  all  danger 
to  life  or  health,  and  such  person  shall  also,  immediately 
upon  discovering  or  learning  any  of  the  aforesaid  facts, 
notify  the  Department  of  Health  thereof  and  of  the  place 
where  such  animal  is  confined.  Every  animal  which  is 
mad  or  has  rabies  shall  at  once  be  killed  by  the  owner 
or  person  having  possession  thereof,  or  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health,  and  the  body  of  any  animal  that  has  died 
of  such  disease,  or  being  suspected  of  such  disease  has  been 
killed,  shall  be  at  once  surrendered  to  the  Department 
of  Health  for  disposition. 

Should  a  dog  bite  any  person,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  owner,  or  person  having  the  same  in  his  possession 
or  under  his  control,  to  immediately  notify  said  Depart- 
ment thereof,  and  surrender  said  dog  to  said  Department 
for  inspection  and  observation;  and  such  dog  shall  be 
returned  to  the  person  from  whom  the  same  shall  have 
been  received  if  found  not  rabid  or  vicious,  and,  if  found 
to  be  rabid  or  vicious  to  such  an  extent  as  to  be  unsafe 
to  be  at  large,  it  shall  be  destroyed  by  said  Department. 

When  the  police  or  other  person  or  authorities  destroy 
a  dog  for  any  of  the  cuases  herein  mentioned,  it  shall  be 
his  or  their  duty  to  immediately  notify  the  Department 
of  Health  thereof  and  of  the  location  of  its  body,  so  that 
the  said  body  may  be  obtained  by  the  said  Department; 
and  it  shall  be  unlawful  to  remove  any  dog  or  animal  to 
which  the  provisions  of  this  section  apply,  or  the  body 
of  any  such  dog  or  animal,  except  as  herein  provided. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  132.) 

Sec.  11.  Horses,  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  geese,  and 
goats;  not  to  be  kept  or  yarded  without  a  permit. — No 
horses  shall  be  yarded  and  no  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  geese, 
or  goats,  shall  be  kept  or  yarded  within  or  adjacent  to 


16  Sections  12  and  13 

the  built-up  portions  of  the  City  of  New  York,  without 
a  permit  issued  therefor  by  the  Board  of  Health.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  73.) 

Sec.  12.  Keeping  of  cows  regulated. — Xo  cows  shall 
be  kept  in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  issued 
therefor  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in 
accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  said  permit  and  with 
the  Regulations  of  said  Board.     (S.  C.  Sec.  72.) 

Sec.  13.  Tuberculin  test  of  cows;  certificate. — No 
milch  cow  or  cow  intended  for  any  purpose  other  than 
slaughter,  shall  be  admitted  to  the  City  of  New  York 
unless  accompanied  by  a  certificate  stating  that  the 
said  cow  is  fiee  from  tuberculosis  so  far  as  may  be  ascer- 
tained by  physical  examination  and  the  application  of 
the  tuberculin  test.  Said  certificate  shall  contain  a 
physical  description  of  the  cow  sufficiently  accurate  for 
the  purpose  of  identification,  and  must  be  signed  by  a 
legally  licensed  veterinarian,  who  shall  state  the  date 
and  place  of  his  registration.  The  certificate  shall  also 
bear  a  number  which  must  correspond  witn  a  tag  that 
shall  have  been  securely  attached  to  and  be  on  the  ear  of 
the  cow.  The  certificate  shall  also  contain  the  date  of 
the  examination,  which  examination  shall  have  been  made 
not  more  than  sixty  days  prior  to  the  time  the  cow  indi- 
cated therein  is  brought  into  the  city;  it  must  also  con- 
tain the  place  of  examination,  the  temperature  of  the 
cow  for  6  hours  prior  to  the  injection  of  tuberculin,  the 
name,  quality,  and  character  of  the  preparation  of  tuber- 
culin used,  the  location  of  the  injection,  the  quantity 
injected,  and  the  temperatures  from  the  8th  to  the  20th 
hour  after  the  injection,  or  until  the  reaction  is  completed. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  124.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
May  6,  1915,  and  as  amended  May  25,  1915,  and  as 
further  amended  July  28,  1916.) 


Sections  14,  15,  16,  17,  18  AND  19  17 

Sec.  14.  Cattle;  adequate  ventilation,  proper  food 
and  water  to  be  provided. — Xo  cattle  shall  be  kept  in 
any  place,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  where  the  ventilation 
is  not  adequate,  and  the  water  and  food  are  not  of  such 
quality  and  in  such  condition  as  to  properly  preserve 
their  health,  condition,  and  wholesomeness  for  food. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  71.) 

Sec.  15.  Cattle;  method  of  transporting  in  vehicles 
restricted. — Xo  cattle  shall  be  placed  or  carried  while 
bound  or  tied  by  the  legs,  or  bound  down  by  the  neck, 
in  any  vehicle  in  the  City  of  New  York,  but  shall  be 
allowed  to  freely  stand  in  such  vehicle  when  transported 
and  while  being  therein.      (S.  C.  Sec.  77.) 

Sec.  16.  Shelter  for  homeless  animals;  site  to  be 
approved;  conduct  thereof  regulated. — Xo  shelter  for 
homeless  animals  shall  hereafter  be  opened  or  established 
in  the  City  of  New  York  unless  the  site  therefor  be  first 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Health;  and  no  such  shelter 
shall  be  conducted  in  said  City  without  a  permit  tnerefor 
issued  by  the  said  Board  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations 
of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  81a.) 

Sec.  17.  Unmuzzled  dogs;  not  permitted  in  any 
public  place. — No  unmuzzled  dog  snail  be  permitted, 
at  any  time,  to  be  on  any  public  highway  or  in  any  public 
park  or  place  in  the  City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  80a.) 

Sec.  IS.  Sale  of  small  animals  regulated. — No  person 
shall  sell  or  keep  for  sale  at  any  place  in  the  City  of  New 
York  any  dogs,  cats,  birds,  or  other  small  animals,  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  80.) 

Sec.  19.  Live  chickens,  geese,  ducks,  and  other 
fowls;     the    keeping,    killing,    and    sale    regulated. — No 


IS  Sections  20  and  21 

live  chickens,  geese,  ducks,  or  other  fowls,  shall  be 
brought  into,  or  kept,  held,  offered  for  sale,  sold,  or 
killed  in,  any  yard,  area,  cellar,  coop,  building,  premises, 
public  market,  or  other  public  place,  except  premises 
used  for  farming  in  unimproved  sections  of  the  City, 
without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health 
or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said 
permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  79.) 

Sec.  20.  Keeping  of  live  pigeons  regulated. — No 
live  pigeons  shall  be  kept  within  the  built-up  portion 
of  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  therefor 
issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in 
accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  writh  the 
Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  81.) 

Sec.  21.  Horses  to  be  tested  for  glanders.— No  horse 
shall  be  brougnt  into  or  kept  in  the  City  of  New  York 
unless  it  shall  be  tested  and  foun  i  to  be  free  from  gland- 
ers by  a  duly  licensed  veterinarian,  in  accordance  with  the 
Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health.  (As  adopted  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  December  28,  1917.) 


ARTICLE   3. 
Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths. 

Sec.  31.  Births  and  still  births;  parents  and  every  per- 
son to  report;  physicians  and  professional 
midwuves  to  keep  registry  and  file  written 
copy. 

Sec.  32.  Deaths;  duty  of  physicians  and  other  persons 
to  report;    centents  of  death  certificate. 

Sec.  33.  Births,  still  births,  marriages,  and  deaths;  copy 
of  registry  to  be  filed. 


Section  31  19 

34.  Marriages;      duty    of    clergymen,    magistrates, 

and  other  persons  performing  ceremony. 

35.  Persons   who   perform   the   marriage   ceremony 

must  register. 

36.  False  certificates,  statements,  and  reports. 

37.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;    permit  to  carry 

or  convey  required;    exception. 
3S.     Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;    transit  permit 
required;    conditions  under  which  said  per- 
mit will  be  granted. 

39.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings  not  to  be  retained 

or  exposed. 

40.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings  not  to  be  retained 

unburied. 

41.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;    duty  of  persons 

discovering    such    bodies    to    communicate 
with  Department  of  Health. 

42.  Dead    bodies    of    human    beings;      interment, 

cremation,     or    other    disposition;      permit 

required. 
Sextons;   to  register  with  Department  of  Health. 
Duties  of  sextons  and  other  persons. 
Crematories,        burying-grounds,        cemeteries, 

tombs,     and    vaults;      permit    required    to 

establish,  to  bury,  and  to  open  receptacle; 

burial  of  dead  body  restricted. 
Business  of  undertaking  regulated. 


Sec.  31.  Births  and  still  births;  parents,  and  every 
person  to  report;  physicians  and  professional  mid  wives 
to  keep  registry  and  fjle  written  copy. — It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  parents  of  any  child  born  alive  or  dead  in  the 
City  of  New  York  (and  if  there  be  no  parent  alive  that 
has  made  such  report,  then  of  the  next  of  kin  of  said 


20  Section  31 

child  born),  and  of  every  person  present  at  such  birth  or 
still  birth,  to  file  with  the  Department  of  Health,  within 
ten  days  after  such  birth  and  within  thirty-six  hours 
after  such  still  birth,  a  report,  in  writing,  stating,  as  far 
as  known,  the  date,  borough,  street,  and  street  number 
of  said  place  of  birth  or  still  birth,  the  name,  sex,  and 
color  of  such  child  born,  the  name,  residence,  birthplace, 
and  age  of  the  parents,  respectively,  the  occupation  of 
the  father  and  mother,  and  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother. 
It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  physicians  and  professional 
midwives  to  keep  a  registry  of  the  several  births  or  still 
births  in  which  the}*-  have  assisted  professionally,  which 
shall  contain  the  date  of  birth  or  still  birth,  the  borough, 
street,  and  street  number  of  premises  wherein  such  birth 
or  still  birth  took  place,  the  sex  and  color  of  the  child, 
and  also,  as  Dearly  as  can  be  ascertained,  the  name  of  the 
said  child,  the  number  of  previous  children  born  of  the 
mother,  the  number  now  living,  the  name,  residence, 
birthplace  and  age  of  the  parents,  respectively,  the  occu- 
pation of  the  father  and  mother,  and  the  maiden  name 
of  the  mother;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  physicians 
and  professional  midwives,  also,  to  file  a  written  copy 
of  the  said  registry  of  birth  or  still  birtn  with  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  in  the  borough  office  of  the  borough 
wherein  the  birth  or  still  birth  occurred,  within  ten  days 
after  such  birth  and  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such 
still  birth,  upon  blank  forms  furnished  by  the  said  Depart- 
ment. Such  physicians  and  professional  midwives  shall 
also  certify  that  they  assisted  professionally  at  the  birth 
or  still  birth  so  reported,  and  that  all  the  other  facts 
stated  in  the  copy  of  the  said  registry  are  true  to  the  best 
of  their  knowledge,  information,  and  belief.  (S.  C.  Sec. 
159.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December 
28,  1917.) 


Sections  32  and  33  21 

Sec.  32.  Deaths;  duty  of  physicians  and  other  per- 
sons to  report;  contents  of  death  certificate. — Physicians 
who  shall  have  attended  deceased  persons  in  their  last 
illness  shall  make  and  preserve  a  registry  of  the  death  of 
every  such  person,  stating  the  cause  thereof  and  speci- 
fying the  date,  hour,  street,  and  street  number  of  the 
premises,  of  such  death,  and  shall  file  with  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  a  report,  in  writing,  of  the  death  of  every 
such  person,  stating,  as  nearly  as  can  be  ascertained,  the 
date  of  death,  the  sex,  name  and  surname,  age,  occupation, 
term  of  residence  in  the  City  of  New  York,  place  of 
nativity,  condition  of  life,  namely,  whether  single  or  mar- 
ried, a  widow  or  widower,  or  divorced,  the  color,  last  place 
of  residence,  the  name  and  birthplace  of  the  parents, 
respectively,  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother,  and  the 
chief  and  determining,  and  the  contributory,  cause  or 
causes  of  death,  of  such  person;  stating  also  whether  an 
autopsy  has  been  performed,  and,  if  so,  the  findings  of 
such  autopsy;  and  the  chief  medical  examiner,  the  deputy 
medical  examiners,  and  the  assistant  medical  examiners 
of  the  City,  shall,  in  their  certificates,  conform  to  the 
requirements  of  this  section,  and,  where  death  shall  have 
resulted  from  accident,  homicide,  or  suicide,  shall  specify 
how,  when,  and  where  the  injuries  causing  such  death 
were  received.  (S.  C.  Sec.  160.)  (As  amended  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  December  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  33.  Births,  still  births,  marriages,  and  deaths; 
copy  of  registry  to  be  filed. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 
person  required  to  make  or  keep  a  registry  of  births, 
still  births,  marriages,  or  deaths,  to  present  to  the  Bureau 
of  Records  of  the  Department  of  Health  a  copy  of  such 
registry  signed  by  such  person,  within  ten  days  after  the 
birth  or  marriage,  and  within  thirty-six  hours  after  the 
death  or  still  birth,  of  any  person  to  whom  such  registry 


22  Sections  34,  35  and  36 

relates,  which  copy  of  such  registry  shall  thereupon  be 
placed  on  file  in  the  said  Bureau.  (S.C.  Sec.  161.)  (As 
amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  34.  Marriages;  duty  of  clergymen,  magistrates, 
and  other  persons  performing  ceremony. — Tt  shall  be  the 
duty  of  clergymen,  magistrates,  and  other  persons  who 
perform  the  marriage  ceremony  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
to  keep  a  registry  of  the  marriages  performed  by  them, 
respectively,  which  shall  contain  the  place  and  date  of 
marriage,  the  age,  color,  name  and  surname,  birthplace, 
and  residence,  respectively,  of  the  bride  and  groom,  the 
number  of  times  each  has  been  married,  the  condition  of 
each,  namely,  whether  single,  a  widow  or  widower,  or 
divorced,  the  occupation  of  the  groom,  the  maiden  name 
of  the  bride,  if  a  widow,  and  the  names  of  the  parents 
and  the  maiden  name  of  the  mother  of  each.  (S.  C.  Sec. 
158.) 

Sec.  35.  Persons  who  perform  the  marriage  cere- 
mony must  register. — Every  person  authorized  by  law 
to  perform  the  marriage  ceremony  shall,  before  perform- 
ing any  such  ceremony  in  the  City  of  New  York,  register 
his  or  her  name  and  address,  and  every  change  of  address, 
in  the  office  of  the  Bureau  of  Records  of  the  Department 
of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  158.) 

Sec.  36.  False  certificates,  statements,  and  reports. — 
No  person  shall  make,  prepare,  deliver,  or  issue  any  false 
certificate,  statement,  or  report,  of  a  birth,  marriage,  or 
death,  or  am/  certificate,  statement,  or  report,  which  is 
not  in  accordance  with  the  facts  of  the  birth,  marriage, 
or  death.  All  certificates,  statements,  and  reports,  of 
births,  marriages,  or  deaths,  shall  be  signed  by  the  person 
purporting  to  make  the  same,  and  no  person  shall  sign 
or  forge  the  name  of  another  to  any  such  certificate,  state- 
ment, or  report.      (S.  C.  Sec.  162.) 


Sections  37  and  38  23 

Fee.  ^7.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;  permit  to 
carry  or  convey  required;  exception. — No  captain,  agent, 
or  other  person,  having  charge  of  or  attached  to  any 
ferry-boat  or  sailing  or  other  vessel,  or  any  person  in 
charge  of  any  public  or  private  vehicle  or  conveyance, 
shall  convey  or  allow  to  be  conveyed,  theieon  or  therein, 
from,  through,  into,  or  within  the  City  of  New  York,  nor 
shall  any  person  carry  or  convey,  or  allow  to  be  carried 
or  conveyed,  in  any  manner,  from,  through,  into,  or 
within  the  said  City,  the  dead  body  of  any  human  being, 
or  any  part  thereof,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by 
the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with 
the  terms  of  such  permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said 
Board;  provided,  however,  that  the  same  effect  shall  be 
given,  under  this  section,  to  a  transit  permit  issued  by 
Boards  of  Health,  Health  Officers,  Registrars,  or  other 
duly  authorized  persons,  in  any  State  of  the  United  States 
whose  rules  and  regulations  for  the  transportation  of  the 
dead  shall,  when  such  permit  is  issued,  be  in  material 
accord  with  those  at  the  time  in  force  in  the  City  of  Xew 
York,  as  though  such  permit  were  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Health  of  the  City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  163.) 

Sec.  38.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;  transit  per- 
mit required;  conditions  under  which  said  permit  will  be 
granted. — No  transit  permit  shall  be  granted  for  the 
removal,  burial,  or  other  disposition  of  the  remains  of 
any  person  who  shall  have  died  in  the  City  of  New  York 
unless  a  certificate  of  death,  prepared  upon  a  form  furn- 
ished by  the  Department  of  Health  and  signed  as  herein- 
after provided,  shall  have  been  filed  in  the  said  Depart- 
ment. 

Such  certificate  must  be  signed  by  a  physician  upon 
whom  has  been  conferred  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medi- 
cine, or  by  a  physician  who  has  been  granted  a  license 


24  Sections  39,  40,  41  and  42 

after  a  medical  examination  conducted  by  the  New  York 
State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners,  the  questions  for  which 
have  been  prepared  by  the  Board  of  Regents  of  said  State. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  163a.) 

Sec.  39.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings  not  to  be  re- 
tained or  exposed. — Xo  person  shall  retain,  expose,  or 
allow  to  be  retained  or  exposed,  the  dead  body  of  any 
human  being  to  the  peril  or  prejudice  of  the  life  or  health 
of  any  person.      (S.  C.  Sec.  164.) 

Sec.  40.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings  not  to  be  re- 
tained unburied. — Xo  person  shall  retain  unburied  the 
dead  body  of  any  human  being  for  a  longer  period  than 
four  days  after  the  death  of  such  person,  without  a  permit 
from  the  Sanitary  Superintendent,  an  Assistant  Sanitary 
Superintendent,  or  the  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Infecti- 
ous Diseases,  which  permit  shall  specify  the  length  of 
time  during  which  such  body  may  be  so  retained.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  165.) 

Sec.  41.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;  duty  of  per- 
sons discovering  such  bodies  to  communicate  with 
Department  of  Health. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 
person  who  has  discovered  or  seen  the  body  of  a  dead 
human  being  or  any  part  thereof  (if  there  is  reason  for 
such  person  to  think  that  the  fact  of  the  death,  or  the 
place  of  such  body,  or  part  thereof,  is  not  publicly  known), 
to  immediately  communicate  to  the  Department  of  Health 
the  fact  that  such  person  has  discovered  or  seen  such  body, 
the  place  where,  and  time  when,  such  body  was  discovered 
or  seen,  and  (if  known)  the  place  where  such  body  is  or 
may  be  found,  and  any  facts  known  by  which  such  body 
may  be  identified  or  the  cause  of  death  ascertained. 
(S.C.  Sec.  166.) 

Sec.  42.  Dead  bodies  of  human  beings;  interment, 
cremation,   or  other   disposition;     permit  required. — Xo 


Sections  43  and  44  25 

interment,  cremation,  or  other  disposition,  of  the  dead 
body  of  any  human  being,  shall  be  made  in  the  City  of 
New  York  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board 
of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  such  permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said  Board,  and 
the  said  dead  body  shall  be  placed  in  a  metallic  or  tin- 
lined  box,  or  a  box  so  constructed  as  to  prevent  the  issu- 
ance of  any  liquids  therefrom.  No  sexton  or  other  per- 
son shall  assist  in,  assent  to,  or  allow  the  interment, 
cremation,  or  other  disposition  of  any  such  body,  or  aid 
the  preparation  of  or  assist  in  preparing  any  grave  or 
place  or  deposit  for  any  such  body,  unless  a  permit  shall 
have  been  issued,  as  hereinbefore  provided,  authorizing 
such  interment,  cremation,  or  other  disposition  of  such 
body;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  who  shall 
receive  any  such  permit  to  return  such  permit  to  the 
Department  of  Health  in  accordance  with  the  Regula- 
tions of  the  Board  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  167.) 

Sec.  43.  Sextons  to  register  with  Department  of 
Health. — Every  person  who  acts  as  a  sexton  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  or  has  the  charge  or  care  of  any  crematory, 
vault,  tomb,  burying-ground,  or  cemetery  for  the  recep- 
tion of  the  dead  bodies  of  human  beings,  or  any  place 
wherein  the  bodies  of  any  human  beings  are  deposited, 
shall  cause  his  or  her  name  and  address,  and  every  change 
of  address,  and  the  character  of  his  or  her  duties,  to  be 
registered  with  the  Bureau  of  Records  of  the  Department 
of  Health.  (S.  C.  Sec.  169.)  (As  amended  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  December  31,  1919.) 

Sec.  44.  Duties  of  sextons  and  other  persons. — 
Every  sexton  and  other  person  having  charge  of  any 
crematory,  burying-ground,  cemetery,  tomb,  or  vault, 
in  the  City  of  New  York,  shall,  before  twelve  o'clock  on 
Monday  of  each  week,  make  a  return  to  the  Department 


26  Sections  45  and  46 

of  Health,  which  return  shall  set  forth  a  record  of  the 
receipt  and  disposition  of  each  body  buried  or  cremated 
since  the  last  return,  and  which  said  return  shall  be  in 
such  form,  and  shall  specify  such  additional  particulars, 
as  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health  shall  require. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  170.) 

Sec.  45.  Crematories,  burying-grounds,  cemeteries, 
tombs,  and  vaults;  permit  required  to  establish,  to  bury, 
and  to  open  receptacle;  burial  of  dead  body  restricted. — 
No  new  crematory,  bury-ground,  cemetery,  tomb,  or 
vaalt  to  be  used  for  the  reception  of  dead  human  bodies 
shall  be  established,  nor  shall  any  dead  body,  or  the  re- 
mains thereof,  be  placed  in  any  existing  burying-ground, 
vault,  tomb,  or  cemetery,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  nor 
shall  any  grave,  vault,  tomb,  or  other  receptacle  in  which 
there  is  a  human  body  or  any  part  thereof,  be  opened, 
exposed,  or  disturbed,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  such  permit  and  the  Regulations  of 
said  Board,  and  every  body  buried  in  any  such  place  shall 
be  buried  to  the  depth  of  six  feet  below  the  surface  of  the 
ground,  and  four  feet  below  any  closely  adjacent  street, 
except  that,  in  the  Borough  of  Queens,  a  body  may  be 
buried  to  the  depth  of  three  feet  below  the  surface  of  the 
ground.      (S.  C.  Sec.  168.) 

Sec.  46.  Business  of  undertaking  regulated;  permit 
required. — No  person,  firm,  or  corporation  shall  carry 
on  or  engage  in  the  business  or  practice  of  undertaking 
in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  therefor  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  the  regulations  of  said 
Board.  (The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  take  effect 
February  1,  1920.)  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
December  31,  1919.) 


Article  4  27 


ARTICLE   4. 
Buildings. 


51.  Toint  and  several  responsibility  of  owner, 
lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant  for  existence  of 
nuisance  or  violation  of  Sanitary  Code. 

52.  Inadequate  strength,  ventilation,  light,  and 
sewerage,  of  buildings,  and  conditions 
therein  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or 
health,  forbidden. 

,  53.     Nuisances,    conditions    dangerous    and    preju- 
dicial to  life  or  health;     duties  of   owners, 
tenants,   lessees,   occupants   and   persons   in 
charge  of  buildings  and  lots. 
Dwellings;      sanitary     conditions;       duties     of 

owner  and  lessee. 
Theatres,  manufactories,  and  workrooms;    sani- 
tary conditions,  lighting,  heating,  and  ven- 
tilation. 
Lodging-houses,     boarding-houses,     or     manu- 
factories not  to  be  overcrowded. 
Schools,    gymnasiums,    and    places    of    public 
worship";    duties  and  responsibilities  of  per- 
sons in  charge. 
Sec.  58.     Stables;    to  be  maintained  in  accordance  with 

the  Regulations  of  the  Hoard  of  Health. 
Sec.  59.     Roofs  and  skylights  to  be  kept  in  good  repair. 
Sec.  60.     Walls  and  ceilings  to  be  clean. 
Sec.  61.     Water  tanks  on  roofs  of  buildings;    their    use 

regulated. 
Sec.  62.     Sleeping  in  cellars  or  in  any  olace  dangerous 
or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health  prohibited. 


o/. 


28  Sections  51,  52  and  53 

Sec.  51.  Joint  and  several  responsibility  of  owner, 
lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant  for  existence  of  nuisance  or 
violation  of  Sanitary  Code. — The  owner,  lessee,  tenant, 
and  occupant  of  every  building  or  premises,  or  of  any  part 
thereof,  where  there  shall  be  a  nuisance,  or  a  violation  of 
any  section  of  the  Sanitary  Code,  shall  be  jointly  and 
severally  liable  therefor,  in  so  far  as  they,  respectively, 
have  the  power  to  prevent  or  abate  such  nuisance  or  pre- 
vent such  violation,  and,  to  such  extent,  each  of  them 
may  be  required  to  abate  the  nuisance,  or  comply  with  the 
order  of  the  Board  of  Health  in  respect  to  such  building, 
premises,  or  part  thereof.      (S.  C.  Sec.  13.) 

Sec.  52.  Inadequate  strength,  ventilation,  light,  and 
sewerage,  of  buildings,  and  conditions  therein  dangerous 
or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health,  forbidden. — No  person, 
persons,  or  corporation,  shall  hereafter,  in  the  City  of 
New  York,  erect  or  cause  to  be  erected,  or  convert  or 
cause  to  be  converted  to  a  new  purpose  by  alteration, 
any  building  or  structure,  or  change  or  cause  to  be  changed 
the  construction  of  any  part  of  any  building  or  structure 
by  addition  or  otherwise,  so  that  it,  or  any  part  thereof, 
shall  be  inadequate  or  defective  in  respect  to  strength, 
ventilation,  light,  sewerage,  or  any  other  usual,  proper, 
or  necessary  provision  or  precaution  for  the  security  of 
life  and  health;  nor  shall  the  builder,  owner,  lessee, 
tenant,  or  occupant  of  any  building  or  structure  in  the 
said  City  cause  or  allow  any  matter  or  thing  to  be  or  to 
be  done  in  or  about  any  such  building  or  structure  dan- 
gerous or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  16.) 

Sec.  53.  Nuisances,  conditions  dangerous  and  pre- 
judicial to  life  or  health;  duties  of  owners,  tenants, 
lessees,  occupants,  and  persons  in  charge  of  buildings 
and  lots. — Every  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  occupant  or  per- 
son in  charge  of  any  building  or  premises  within  or  ad- 


Section  54  29 

jacent  to  the  built-up  portions  of  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  keep  and  cause  to  be  kept  the  sidewalk,  flagging 
and  curbstone  abutting  on  said  building  or  premises  free 
from  obstructions  and  nuisances  of  every  kind,  and  shall 
sweep  and  remove  or  cause  to  be  swept  and  removed 
therefrom  all  garbage,  refuse,  filth,  dirt,  and  other  offen- 
sive material  and  shall  keep  such  sidewalk,  flagging,  and 
curbstone  free  from  garbage,  refuse,  filth,  dirt,  and  other 
offensive  material.  Every  such  sidewalk,  flagging,  or 
curbstone  shall  be  spattered  with  wet  sawdust,  paper  or 
sand,  sprinkled  with  water,  or  some  other  equally  effec- 
tive method  or  material  used,  to  prevent  and  avoid  the 
raising  of  dust  when  such  garbage,  refuse,  filth,  dirt,  or 
other  offensive  material  is  swept  or  removed  therefrom. 
Such  garbage,  refuse,  filth,  dirt,  and  other  offensive 
material  removed  from  the  sidewalk,  flagging  or  curb- 
stone may  be  piled  in  the  gutter  or  roadway  between  the 
hours  of  six  and  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  but  shall 
not  be  put  or  placed  in,  or  swept,  shovelled,  thrown, 
emptied,  or  deposited  into,  the  gutter  or  roadway  at  any 
other  time.  No  such  owner,  tenant,  lessee,  occupant  or 
person  in  charge  shall  allow  anything  in,  on,  or  about 
such  building  or  premises,  or  any  condition  arising  or 
existing  therein  or  thereon,  to  become  a  nuisance,  or  dan- 
gerous or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health.  (S.  C.  Sec.  41.) 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  28,  1916 
and  as  further  amended  October  30,  1918.) 

Sec.  54.  Dwellings;  sanitary  conditions;  duties  of 
owner  and  lessee. — No  owner  or  lessee  of  any  building, 
or  any  part  thereof,  shall  lease  or  let  or  hire  out  or  allow 
the  same  or  any  part  thereof  to  be  occupied  by  any  per- 
son, or  allow  any  one  to  dwell  or  lodge  therein,  except 
when  said  building  or  such  parts  thereof  are  sufficiently 
lighted,    ventilated,    provided,    and    accommodated,    and 


30  Sections  55  and  56 

are  in  all  respects  in  that  condition  of  cleanliness  and 
wholesomeness  for  which  this  Code  or  any  law  of  this 
State  provides,  or  in  which  the  said  Code  or  any  such  law 
requires  any  such  premises  to  be  kept.  Nor  shall  any 
such  person,  having  power  to  prevent  the  same,  rent, 
let,  hire  out,  or  allow,  to  be  used  as  or  for  a  place  for 
sleeping  or  residence,  any  cellar  in  any  building,  or  any 
room  of  which  the  floor  is  damp  by  reason  of  water  from 
the  ground,  or  which  is  impregnated  or  penetrated  by 
any  offensive  gas,  smell,  or  exhalation,  prejudicial  to 
health.     (S.  C.  Sec.  17.) 

Sec.  55.  Theatres,  manufactories,  and  workrooms; 
sanitary  conditions,  lighting,  heating,  and  ventilation. — 
The  owner,  agent,  lessee,  tenant,  manager,  and  person 
conducting  every  theatre,  auditorium,  assembly  hall, 
factory,  workroom,  store,  or  office,  shall  cause  every  part 
thereof  and  its  appurtenances  to  be  put,  and  shall  there- 
after cause  the  same  to  be  kept,  in  a  cleanly  and  sanitary 
condition,  and  shall  cause  every  room  thereof  to  be 
adequately  lighted;  shall  provide,  in  each  room  thereof, 
proper  and  sufficient  means  of  ventilation  by  natural  or 
mechanical  means,  or  both,  and  maintain  proper  degrees 
of  temperature  and  humidity  in  every  room  thereof;  and 
shall  cause  every  part  of  any  such  place  to  be  provided 
with  such  accommodations  and  safeguards,  as  not,  by 
reason  of  the  want  thereof,  or  by  reason  of  anything  about 
the  condition  of  such  place  or  its  appurtenances,  to  cause 
any  unnecessary  danger  or  detriment  to  the  life  or  health 
of  any  person  being  properly  therein  or  thereat.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  22.) 

Sec.  56.  Lodging-houses,  boarding-houses,  or  manu- 
factories not  to  be  overcrowded. — No  owner,  lessee,  or 
keeper  of  any  lodging-house,  boarding-house,  factory, 
workroom,  store,  office,  or  place  of  business,  shall  cause 


Sections  57,  58,  59  and  60  31 

or  allow  the  same  to  be  overcrowded  or  cause  or  allow  so 
great  a  number  of  persons  to  dwell,  be,  or  sleep  in  any 
such  house,  or  any  portion  thereof,  as  thereby  to  cause 
any  danger  or  detriment  to  life  or  health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  19.) 

Sec.  57.  Schools,  gymnasiums,  and  places  of  public 
worship;  duties  and  responsibilities  of  persons  in  charge. 
— Xo  master  or  teacher,  or  manager  of,  or  in,  any  school, 
public  or  private,  or  of  or  in  any  Sunday-school  or  gym- 
nasium, or  the  officer  thereof,  or  officer  or  manager  or 
person  having  charge  of  any  place  of  public  worship, 
shall  so  far  omit  or  neglect  any  duty  or  reasonable  care 
or  precaution  respecting  the  safety  or  health  of  any  scholar, 
pupil,  or  attendant,  or  respecting  the  temperature,  ventila- 
tion, cleanliness,  or  strength,  of  any  church,  hall  of  wor- 
ship, school-house,  school-room,  or  place  of  practice  or 
exercise  connected  therewith,  or  relative  to  anything 
appurtenant  thereto,  so  that  by  reason  of  such  neglect 
or  omission,  the  life  or  health  of  any  person  shall  suffer  or 
incur  any  avoidable  peril  or  detriment.     (S.  C.  Sec.  25.) 

Sec.  58.  Stables;  to  be  maintained  in  accordance 
with  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health. — Xo  stable 
shall  be  maintained  in  the  City  of  Xew  York  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  The  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  apply  to  the  owner,  lessee,  tenant, 
occupant,  or  person  in  charge  of  such  stable. 

Sec.  59.  Roofs  and  skylights  to  be  kept  in  good 
repair. — The  roofs,  skylights,  walls,  and  windows  of  all 
buildings  shall  be  kept  in  a  condition  of  good  repair  so 
that  rain  water  shall  not  enter  the  building.  (S.  C.  Sec. 
24.) 

Sec.  60.  Walls  and  ceilings  to  be  clean. — All  filthy 
rand  dirty  walls  and  ceilings  of  any  building,  including 


32  Sections  61  and  62 

the  walls  and  ceilings  of  the  cellars  thereof,  shall  be 
thoroughly  cleaned  and  whitewashed  whenever  required 
by  the  Department  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  23.) 

Sec.  61.  Water  tanks  on  roofs  of  buildings;  their 
use  regulated. — Every  tank  for  holding  water  located 
on  the  roof  or  external  part  of  a  building  shall  be  kept 
completely  covered  with  a  tight-fitting  cover.  Every 
tank  from  which  water  is  furnished  for  drinking  and 
domestic  purposes  shall  be  emptied  and  the  inside  thor- 
oughly cleaned  at  least  once  a  year  and  at  such  other 
times  as  may  be  directed  by  the  Sanitary  Superintendent 
or  an  Assistant  Sanitary  Superintendent  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  62a.) 

Sec.  62.  Sleeping  in  cellars  or  in  any  place  dangerous 
or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health  prohibited. — No  person 
having  the  right  and  power  to  prevent  the  same  shall 
knowingly  cause  or  permit  any  person  to  sleep  or  remain 
in  any  cellar,  in  any  bathroom,  in  any  room  where  there 
is  a  water-closet,  or  in  any  place  dangerous  or  prejudicial 
to  life  or  health,  by  reason  of  the  want  of  ventilation  or 
drainage,  or  by  reason  of  the  presence  of  any  poisonous, 
noxious,  or  offensive  odor  or  substance,  or  otherwise. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  18.) 

ARTICLE   5. 

Cold  Storage. 

Sec.  71.     The  term  "food"  denned. 

Sec.  72.     Cold  storage  food  to  be  marked. 

Sec.  73.     Time  that  cold  storage  food  may  be  kept. 

Sec.  74.     Food   when   once  released  for  the  purpose   of 

placing  same  on  market  for  sale  not  to  be 

returned  to  cold  storage. 


Sections  71  and  72  33 

Sec.  75.     Food  kept  in  cold  storage  not  to  be  sold  with- 
out representing  the  fact  of  such  storage. 

Sec.  71.  The  term  "food"  defined.— The  term  food 
as  used  in  this  Article  shall  include  any  article,  except 
nuts,  fruits,  cheese  and  vegetables,  used  for  food  by  man 
or  animal  and  every  ingredient  of  such  article. 

Sec.  72.  Cold  storage  food  to  be  marked. — It  shall 
hereafter  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons,  corpora- 
tion or  corporations,  engaged  in  the  business  of  cold 
storage  warehousemen  or  in  the  business  of  refrigerating, 
to  receive  any  kind  of  food  unless  the  said  food  is  in  an 
apparently  pure  and  wholesome  condition,  and  the  food 
or  the  package  containing  the  same  is  branded,  stamped 
or  marked,  in  some  conspicuous  place,  with  the  day, 
month  and  year  when  the  same  is  received  in  storage  or 
refrigeration. 

It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons,  corpora- 
tion or  corporations,  engaged  in  the  business  of  cold 
storage  warehousemen  or  in  the  business  of  refrigerating 
to  permit  any  article  of  any  kind  whatsoever  used  for 
food  in  the  possession  of  any  person  or  persons,  corpora- 
tion or  corporations,  engaged  in  the  business  of  cold 
storage  warehousemen  or  refrigerating,  to  be  taken  from 
their  possession  without  first  having  branded,  stamped 
or  marked  on  said  food  stuffs  or  the  package  containing 
same,  in  a  conspicuous  place,  the  day,  month  and  year 
when  said  food  stuffs  or  package  was  removed  from  cold 
storage  or  refrigeration. 

It  shall  also  be  unlawful  for  any  person  cr  persons, 

corporation  or  corporations,  to  offer  for  storage  in  a  cold 

storage  warehouse  or  to  place  in  storage  in  a  cold  storage 

.warehouse  any  article  of  food  unless  the  same  is  in  an 

apparently  pure  and  wholesome  condition. 


34  Sections  73,  74,  75  and  80 

Sec.  73.     Time  that  cold  storage  food  may  be  kept.- 

It  shall  hereafter  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  corporation 
or  corporations,  engaged  in  the  business  of  cold  storage 
warehousemen  or  refrigerating,  or  for  any  person  or  cor- 
poration placing  food  in  a  cold  storage  warehouse,  to 
keep  in  storage  for  preservation  or  otherwise  any  kind 
of  food  or  any  article  used  for  food  a  longer  period  than 
twelve  calendar  months.  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of. 
Health,  December  31,  1918.) 

Sec.  74.  Food  when  once  released  for  the  purpose  of 
placing  same  on  market  for  sale  not  to  be  returned  to 
cold  storage. — When  food  has  been  in  cold  storage  or 
refrigeration  and  is  released  therefrom  for  the  purpose 
of  placing  the  same  on  the  market  for  sale  it  shall  be  a 
violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  Article  to  again  place 
such  food  in  cold  storage  or  refrigertaion. 

Sec.  75.  Food  kept  in  cold  storage  not  to  be  sold 
without  representing  the  fact  of  such  storage. — It  shall 
be  a  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  Article  to  sell  any 
article  or  articles  of  food  that  have  been  kept  in  cold 
storage  or  refrigeration,  without  representing  the  same 
to  have  been  so  kept. 

ARTICLE   6. 

Medical  Examiners. 

Sec.  80.     Duties  of  medical  examiners. 

Sec.  81.     Coroners  to  report  information  relative  to  the 

death  of  any  person.      (Annulled.) 
Sec.  82.     Inquests;     return    to    be    made    by    Coroners. 

(Annulled.) 


Sec.  80.     Duties    of    Medical    Examiners. — The   Chief 
Medical  Examiner,  the  Deputy  Medical  Examiners  and 


Sections  81  and  82  35 

the  Assistant  Medical  Examiners  shall  transmit  and  cause 
to  be  delivered  to  the  Department  of  Health  within  two 
hours  after  viewing  the  dead  body  of  any  person  who  has 
died  from  any  infectious  disease  the  following  facts  so  far 
as  known  or  reported  to  such  Chief  Medical  Examiner, 
Deputy  Medical  Examiners,  and  Assistant  Medical  Ex- 
aminers: the  name  of  the  deceased;  the  place  of  death, 
giving  the  street  and  street  number  or  such  other  particu- 
lars as  will  identify  said  place  of  death;  the  location  of 
the  body;  the  cause  of  death ;  the  date  and  time  of  death; 
the  name  or  names  of  physician  or  physicians,  if  any, 
attending  the  deceased  in  his  or  her  last  illness;  the  occu- 
pation of  deceased;  the  place  of  employment;  the  place 
to  which  body  has  been  removed,  if  removal  permit  has 
been  issued ;  and  if  autopsy  was  performed,  the  findings 
thereof.  (S.  C.  Sec.  171.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  December  31,  1917.) 

Sec.  81.  Coroners  to  report  information  relative  to 
the  death  of  any  person. — Every  Coroner  of  the  City  of 
New  York  shall,  immediately  after  any  information 
relative  to  the  death,  in  said  City,  of  any  person  shall 
have  been  received  by  such  Coroner  or  at  the  office  of 
such  Coroner,  notify  the  Department  of  Health,  or  cause 
the  said  Department  to  be  notified,  thereof,  apprising  the 
said  Department  of  the  substance  of  such  information. 
(Annulled  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  31,  1017.) 

Sec.  82.  Inquests;  return  to  be  made  by  Coroners. — 
Every  coroner  in  the  City  of  New  York  shall  make  a 
return  to  the  Bureau  of  Records  of  the  Department  of 
Health  of  every  inquest  held  by  such  Coroner,  except 
when  such  return  is  required  by  law  to  be  filed  elsewhere, 
and  such  return  shall  include  the  evidence  taken  at  such 
inquest,  the  verdict  of  the  jury,  and  the  full  names  and 
residences  of  the  several  jurymen;    and  such  return  shall 


36  Article  7 

be  made  within  forty-eight  hours  after  the  holding  of  such 
inquest. 

And,  in  all  cases  where  the  return  is  required  by  law 
to  be  filed  elsewhere,  such  Coroner  shall  forward  to  the 
said  Bureaa  a  copy  of  such  return  or  a  full  report  of  such 
inquest,  which  copy  or  report  shall  include  a  copy  of  the 
evidence  taken  at  such  inquest,  the  verdict  of  the  jury, 
and  the  full  names  and  residences  of  the  several  jurymen; 
and  such  copy  or  report  shall  be  so  forwarded  within 
forty-eight  hours  after  the  holding  of  such  inquest. 
(Annulled  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  31,  1917.) 

ARTICLE    7. 
Diseases. 

Sec.  86.  Duty  of  persons  in  charge  of  hospitals,  and  of 
physicians,  to  report  infectious  diseases. 

Sec.  87.  Duty  of  every  person  to  report  persons  affected 
with  an  infectious  disease. 

Sec.  88.  Duty  of  superintendents  of  hospitals  and  dis- 
pensaries, and  of  physicians,  to  report 
cases  of  venereal  disease. 

Sec.  89.  Isolation  of  persons  affected  with  infectious 
diseases. 

Sec.  90.  Duty  of  physicians  to  report  deaths  from 
infectious  diseases. 

Sec.  91.  Puerperal  septicaemia  and  suppurative  con- 
junctivitis; duty  of  officers  of  schools,  dis- 
pensaries, and  other  institutions,  and  of 
physicians,  to  report. 

Sec.  92.  Occupational  diseases  and  injuries;  duty  of 
officers  of  hospitals,  public  institutions, 
and  dispensaries,  and  of  physicians,  to 
report. 


Section  86  37 

93.  Group   of   cases   of   food   poisoning;     duty   of 

officers  of  hospitals,  and  of  physicians,  to 
report. 

94.  Exclusion  of  children  from  schools. 

95.  Exclusion  of  teachers  and  instructors  affected 

with  certain  diseases. 

96.  Isolation   of   persons   affected   with   infectious 

diseases  in  institutions. 

97.  Removal  of  persons  affected  with  any  infecti- 

ous disease  authorized. 

98.  Removal  of  persons  affected  with  an  infectious 

disease  regulated. 

99.  Persons  having  an  infectious  disease  not  to  en- 

gage in  manufacturing  in  tenement  houses. 

LOO.  Acts  tending  to  promote  spread  of  disease 
prohibited. 

101,  Disinfection  and  renovation  of  premises,  fur- 
niture, and  belongings. 

.02.     Duties  of  undertakers. 

.03.  Public  or  Church  Funerals  prohibited  where 
death  has  been  caused  by  certain  diseases. 

.04.  Cyanide  used  for  fumigating  purposes  regu-. 
lated. 

.05.     Diagnostic  Laboratories  regulated. 

06.     Wood  Alcohol  poisoning  to  be  reported. 


vSec.  86.  Duty  of  persons  in  charge  of  hospitals,  and 
of  physicians,  to  report  infectious  diseases. — It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  manager  or  managers,  superintendent,  or 
person  in  charge  of  every  hospital,  institution,  or  dispen- 
sary, in  the  City  of  New  York,  to  report  to  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  in  writing  the  full  name,  age,  and  address 
of  every  occupant  or  inmate  thereof  or  person  treated 
therein,  affected  with  any  one  of  the  infectious  diseases 


38  Section  87 

included  in  the  following  list,  with  the  name  of  the  disease, 
within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  time  when  the  case  is 
diagnosed,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  in 
the  said  City  to  make  a  similar  report  to  the  said  Depart- 
ment within  the  same  period  relative  to  any  person  found 
by  such  physician  to  be  affected  with  any  one  of  the  said 
infectious  diseases,  stating,  in  each  instance,  the  name 
of  the  disease:  acute  anterior  poliomyelitis  (infantile 
paralysis),  anthrax,  Asiatic  cholera,  diphtheria  (croup), 
dysentery  (epidemic),  epidemic  cerebro-spinal  meningitis, 
glanders,  suppurative  conjunctivitis,  hook-worm  disease, 
leprosy,  malarial  fever,  measles,  mumps,  paratyphoid 
fever,  plague,  pulmonary  tuberculosis,  acute  lobar  pneu- 
monia, bronchial  or  lobular  pneumonia,  influenza,  rabies, 
rubella  (German  measles,  rotheln),  scarlet  fever,  epidemic 
septic  sore  throat,  smallpox,  tetanus,  trachoma,  trichinosis, 
tuberculous  meningitis,  typhoid  fever,  typhus  fever, 
varicella  (chicken-pox),  whooping-cough,  and  yellow  fever. 

Provided,  that  if  the  disease  is  typhoid  fever,  scarlet 
fever,  diphtheria,  epidemic  dysentery,  or  epidemic  septic 
sore  throat,  every  such  report  shall  also  show  whether 
the  patient  has  been,  or  any  member  of  the  household  in 
which  the  patient  resides  is  engaged  or  employed  in  the 
handling  of  milk,  cream,  butter,  or  other  dairy  products 
for  sale  or  preliminary  to  sale.  (S.  C.  Sec.  133.)  (As 
amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  September  17,  1918.) 

Sec.  87.  Duty  of  every  person  to  report  persons 
affected  with  an  infectious  disease. — When  no  physician 
is  in  attendance,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person 
having  knowledge  of  any  person  affected  with  any  disease 
apparently  or  presumably  infectious  to  at  once  report 
to  the  Department  of  Health  all  facts  in  relation  to  the 
illness  and  physical  condition  of  any  such  person.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  136a.) 


Skctions  SS  and  S!)  39 

Sec.  SS.  Duty  of  superintendents  of  hospitals  and 
dispensaries  and  of  physicians  to  report  cases  of  venereal 
disease.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  manager,  superin- 
tendent or  person  in  charge  of  any  correctional  institu- 
tion and  of  every  public  or  private  hospital,  dispensary, 
clinic,  asylum  or  charitable  institution  in  the  City  of 
New  York  to  report  promptly  to  the  Department  of  Health 
the  name  or  initials,  together  with  the  sex,  age,  marital 
state  and  address,  of  every  occupant  or  inmate  thereof 
or  person  treated  therein  affected  with  syphilis  or 
gonorrhoea;  and  it  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  every  physi- 
cian in  the  said  City  to  promptly  make  a  similar  report  to 
the  Department  of  Health  relative  to  any  person  found 
by  such  physician  to  be  affected  with  syphilis  or  gonor- 
rhoea. All  reports  made  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  and  all  records  of  clinical  or  labora- 
tory examinations  indicating  the  presence  of  syphilis 
or  gonorrhoea  shall  be  regarded  as  confidential  and  shall 
not  be  open  to  inspection  by  the  public  or  by  any  person 
other  than  the  official  custodian  of  such  reports  or  records 
in  the  Department  of  Health,  the  Commissioner  of  Health 
and  such  other  persons  as  may  be  authorized  by  law  to 
inspect  such  reports  or  records,  nor  shall  the  custodian 
of  any  such  report  or  record,  the  said  Commissioner  of 
Health,  or  any  such  other  person  divulge  any  part  of  any 
such  report  or  record  so  as  to  disclose  the  identity  of  the 
person  to  whom  it  relates.  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  89.  Isolation  and  Quarantine  of  Persons  affected 
with  Infectious  Disease. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 
physician,  immediately  upon  discovering  a  person 
affected  with  an  infectious  disease,  to  secure  such  isola- 
tion and  quarantine  of  such  person,  or  to  take  such 
other  action  as  is  or  may  be  required  by  the  Regula- 


40  Sections  90  and  91 

tions   of  the  Department  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  138 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  January  30,  1917, 

Sec.  90.  Duty  of  physicians  to  report  deaths  fron! 
infectious  diseases. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  phy- 
sician to  report  forthwith,  in  writing,  to  the  Department 
of  Health,  the  death  of  every  person  who  dies  from,  or 
while  suffering  with,  any  infectious  disease,  and  to  state 
in  such  report  the  specific  name  and  type  of  such  disease. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  135.) 

Sec.  91.  Puerperal  Septicaemia  and  Suppurative  Con- 
junctivitis: Duty  of  Officers  of  Schools,  Dispensaries, 
and  other  Institutions,  and  of  Physicians,  to  Report. — 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  manager  or  managers,  superin- 
tendent, or  person  in  charge  of  every  sanitarium,  day 
nursery,  convalescent  home,  home  for  children,  reforma- 
tory, training  school,  boarding  school,  hospital,  dispen- 
sary, or  other  institution  for  the  care  or  treatment  of 
persons,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  to  immediately  report, 
or  cause  to  be  immediately  reported,  in  writing,  to  the 
Department  of  Health,  the  name,  age  (so  far  as  can  be 
ascertained),  and  residence  of  every  person  received 
therein  or  treated  thereat  who  is  affected  with  puerperal 
septicaemia  or  suppurative  conjunctivitis,  with  the  name 
of  the  disease  with -which  such  person  is  affected,  and 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  in  the  said  City 
to  immediately  make,  or  cause  to  be  immediately  made, 
a  similar  written  report  to  the  said  Department  relative 
to  any  person  found  by  such  physician  to  be  so  affected, 
stating,  in  each  instance,  the  name  of  the  disease  with 
which  said  person  is  affected.  Every  such  manager, 
physician,  and  officer  shall  also  report,  in  writing,  the 
name  and  address  of  the  physician  or  midwife  in  attendance 
at  the  time  of  the  onset  of  the  disease,  which  information 
it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  every  institution  herein 


Sections  92  and  93  41 

specified  to  obtain  and  record  among  its  records.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  144.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  July 
23,  1918.) 

Sec.  92.  Occupational  diseases  and  injuries:  duty 
of  officers  of  hospitals,  public  institutions,  and  dispen- 
saries, and  of  physicians,  to  report. — It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  manager  or  managers,  superintendent,  or  person 
in  charge  of  every  hospital,  institution,  or  dispensary, 
in  the  City  of  New  York,  to  report  to  the  Department  of 
Health,  in  writing,  the  full  name,  age,  and  address  of 
Every  occupant  or  inmate  thereof  or  person  treated  therein, 
affected  with  any  one  of  the  occupational  diseases  included 
in  the  list  appended,  with  the  name  of  the  disease,  within 
twenty-four  hours  after  the  time  when  the  case  is  diag- 
nosed and  it  shall  be  the.  duty  of  every  physician  to  make  a 
similar  report  to  the  said  Department  within" the  said 
period  relative  to  any  person  found  by  such  physician 
to  be  affected  with  any  one  of  the  said  occupational 
diseases,  stating,  in  each  instance,  the  name  of  the  disease: 
Arsenic  poisoning,  bisulphide  of  carbon  poisoning,  brass 
poisoning,  caisson  disease  (compressed-air  illness),  carbon 
monoxide  poisoning,  dinitrobenzine  poisoning,  lead  poison- 
ing, mercury  poisoning,  methyl  alcohol  or  wood  naphtha 
poisoning,  natural  gas  poisoning,  phosphorus  poisoning. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  134.) 

Sec.  93.  Group  of  cases  of  food  poisoning;  duty 
of  officers  of  hospitals,  and  of  physicians,  to  report. — It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician,  and  of  the  manager, 
superintendent,  or  other  person  in  charge  of  any  hospital, 
dispensary,  or  other  institution,  having  knowledge  of  the 
occurrence  of  a  number  or  group  of  cases  of  severe  or 
fatal  illness,  which  appear  to  be  due  to  the  consumption 
of  spoiled  or  poisonous  articles  of  food  to  immediately 
report  the  same  to  the  Department  of  Health. 


42  Sections  94,  95  and  96 

Sec.  94.     Exclusion    of    children    from    schools. — No 

principal  or  superintendent  of  any  school,  and  no  parent, 
master,  or  custodian  of  any  child  or  minor  (having  the 
power  and  authority  to  prevent)  shall  permit  any  child 
or  minor  having  acute  poliomyelitis  (infantile  paralysis), 
chicken-pox,  diphtheria  (croup),  epidemic  cerebro-spinal 
meningitis,  measles,  mumps,  pulmonary  tuberculosis 
(if  in  a  communicable  form),  rubella  (German  measles, 
rotheln),  scarlet  fever,  smallpox,  or  whooping  cough,  or 
any  child  or  minor  in  any  family,  or  living  with  any 
family,  in  which  any  such  disease  exists  or  has  recently 
existed,  to  attend  any  public,  private,  or  parochial  school 
until  the  Department  of  Health  shall  have  given  its 
permission  therefor,  nor  shall  any  such  principal,  superin- 
tendent, parent,  master,  or  custodian  permit  any  child 
or  minor  to  be  unnecessarily  exposed,  or  to  needlessly 
expose  any  other  person,  to  any  infectious  disease  or  to 
any  infective  person  or  agent.      (S.  C.  Sec.  145.) 

Sec.  95.  Exclusion  of  teachers  and  instructors  affected 
with  certain  diseases. — Xo  person  affected  with  pul- 
monary tuberculosis  (if  in  a  communicable  form)  or  with 
any  other  disease  mentioned  in  Section  94  of  the  Sanitary 
Code  shall  be  employed  as  teacher  or  instructor  in  any 
public,  private,  or  parochial  school,  or  permitted  to  teach 
or  instruct  therein,  unless  the  written  permission  therefor 
shall  have  been  obtained  from  the  Department  of  Health. 

Sec.  96.  Isolation  of  persons  affected  with  infectious 
diseases  in  institutions. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mana- 
ger or  managers,  superintendent,  or  person  in  charge  of 
every  sanatorium,  sanitarium,  day  nursery,  convalescent 
home,  home  for  children,  reformatory,  training  school, 
boarding  school,  hospital,  dispenasry,  or  other  institution 
for  the  care  or  treatment  of  persons,  in  the  City  of  Xew 
York,  to  provide  and  maintain  a  suitable  room  or  rooms 


Sections  97,  98  and  99  43 

for  the  isolation  of  persons  affected  with  such  infectious 
diseases  as  the  Regulations  of  the  Department  of  Health 
may  from  time  to  time  designate  as  being  subject  to  the 
provisions  of  this  section,  and  such  persons  shall  imme- 
diately be  isolated  in  such  room  or  rooms.  (S.  C.  Sec. 
140.)  ' 

Sec.  97.  Removal  of  persons  affected  with  any  in- 
fectious disease  authorized. — Whenever  an  inspector  of 
the  Department  of  Health  shall  report  in  writing  that  any 
person  affected  with  any  infectious  disease,  under  such 
circumstances  that  the  continuance  of  such  person  in  the 
place  where  he  or  she  may  be  is  dangerous  to  the  lives  or 
health  of  other  persons  residing  in  the  neighborhood,  the 
Sanitary  Superintendent,  an  Assistant  Sanitary  Superin- 
tendent, or  the  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Infectious 
Diseases,  of  the  said  Department,  upon  the  report  of  a 
Medical  Inspector  of  the  said  Department  may  cause  the 
removal  of  such  person  to  a  hospital  designated  bv  the 
Board  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  139.) 

Sec.  98.  Removal  of  persons  affected  with  an  in- 
fectious disease  regulated. — Xo  person  shall,  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  carry,  move,  or  cause  to  be  carried  or 
moved,  in  any  manner  whatsoever,  through  any  public 
street  or  place  any  person  affected  with  an  infectious 
disease,  or  any  article  which  has  been  exposed  to  such 
disease;  nor  shall  any  person  remove  or  cause  to  be  re- 
moved, in  the  City  of  New  York,  any  such  person  or  article 
from  any  building  or  vessel  to  any  other  building  or 
vessel,  or  to  the  shore,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  143.) 

Sec.  99.  Persons  having  an  infectious  disease  not 
to  engage  in  manufacturing  in  tenement  houses. — Unless 
permission  therefor  shall  have  been  obtained  from  the 


44     "  Sections  100,  101  and  102 

Department  of  Health,  no  person  affected  with  any  in- 
fectious disease,  or  who  is  exposed  to  any  infectious 
disease,  shall,  in  any  tenement  house  or  in  any  part  thereof, 
engage  in  the  manufacture,  altering,  repairing,  or  finishing 
of  any  article  whatsoever,  except  for  the  sole  and  exclusive 
use  of  the  person  so  engaged. 

Whenever  required  by  the  Sanitary  Superintendent, 
an  Assistant.  Sanitary  Superintendent,  or  the  Director 
of  the  Bureau  of  Infectious  Diseases,  of  the  Department 
of  Health,  any  person  engaged  in  the  manufacture, 
altering,  repairing,  or  finishing  of  any  article  whatsoever, 
except  for  the  sole  and  exclusive  use  of  the  person  so 
engaged,  shall  submit  to  a  physical  examination  by  a 
medical  inspector  of  the  said  Department. 

Sec.  100.  Acts  tending  to  promote  spread  of  disease 
prohibited. — Xo  person  shall  by  any  exposure  of  any 
individual  sick  of  any  infectious  disease,  or  of  the  body 
of  such  person,  or  by  any  negligent  act  connected  there- 
with, or  in  respect  of  the  care  or  custody  thereof,  or  by 
a  needless  exposure  of  himself,  cause,  contribute  to,  or 
promote,  the  spread  of  disease  from  any  such  person, 
or  from  any  dead  body.      (S.  C.  Sec.  143.) 

Sec.  101.  Disinfection  and  renovation  of  premises, 
furniture,  and  belongings. — Adequate  disinfection  or 
cleansing  and  renovation  of  premises,  furniture,  and 
belongings,  deemed  by  the  Department  of  Health  to  be 
infected  by  any  contagious,  infectious  or  communi- 
cable disease,  shall  immediately  follow  the  recovery, 
death,  or  removal  of  the  person  suffering  from  such  disease, 
and  such  disinfection  or  cleansing  and  renovation  shall  be 
performed  by  the  owner  of  said  premises.     (S.  C.  Sec.  146.) 

Sec.  102.  Duties  of  undertakers. — It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  every  undertaker  having  notice  of  the  death  of  any 
person  within  the  City  of  Xew  York  of  acute  cerebro- 


news  103  and  104  15 

Bpinal  meningitis,  acute  poliomyelitis  (infantile  paralysis), 
Asiatic  cholera,  diphtheria  (croup),  plague,  scarlet  fever, 
smallpox,  or  typhus  fever,  or  of  the  bringing  of  the  dead 
body  of  any  person  who  has  died  of  any  such  disease  into 
the  said  City,  to  give  immediate  notice  thereof  to  the 
Department  of  Healtu.  Xo  person  shall  retain  or  expose, 
or  assist  in  the  retention  or  exposiire  of,  the  dead  body  of 
any  such  person  except  in  a  coffin  or  casket  properly 
sealed;  nor  shall  any  person  allow  any  such  body  to  be 
placed  in  any  coffin  or  casket  unless  the  body  shall  have 
been  wrapped  in  a  sheet  saturated  with  a  proper  disinfect- 
ing solution,  and  the  coffin  or  casket  shall  then  be  imme- 
diately and  permanently  sealed.  Xo  undertaker  shall 
assist  in  the  public  or  church  funeral  of  any  such  person. 
Xo  undertaker  shall  use,  or  cause  or  allow  to  be  used,  at 
any  funeral  or  in  any  room  where  the  dead  body  of  any 
such  person  shall  be,  any  draperies,  decorations,  rugs,  or 
carpets,  belonging  to  or  furnished  by  him  or  under  his 
direction.      (S.  C.  Sec.  141.) 

Sec.  103.  Public  or  church  funerals  prohibited  where 
death  has  been  caused  by  certain  diseases. — A  public  or 
church  funeral  shall  not  be  held  of  any  person  who  has 
died  of  acute  poliomyelitis  (infantile  paralysis),  Asiatic 
cholera,  diphtheria  (croup),  epidemic  cerebro-spinal 
meningitis,  measles,  plague,  scarlet  fever,  smallpox,  typhus 
fever,  or  yellow  fever,  but  the  funeral  of  such  person  shall 
be  private,  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  invite  to,  or  per- 
mit at,  the  funeral  of  any  person  who  has  died  of  any  one 
of  the  above  diseases,  or  invite  to  or  permit  at  any  services 
connected  therewith,  any  person  whose  attendance  is 
not  necessary,  or  from  or  to  whom  there  is  danger  of 
contagion  thereby.      (S.  C.  Sec.  142.) 

Sec.  104.  Cyanide  used  for  fumigating  purposes  regu- 
lated.— Xo  person  shall  use,  or  cause  to  be  used,  any 


46  Sections  105  and  106 

hydrocyanic  acid,  cyanogen,  or  cyanide  gas  for  the  pur- 
pose of  fumigating  any  building,  vessel,  or  other  enclosed 
space  in  the  City  of  New  York,  without  a  permit  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  said  permit,  or  the  Regulations  of  said 
Board.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  April  25, 
1916.) 

vSec.  105.  Diagnostic  laboratories  regulated.  No 
laboratory  offering  facilities  for  the  diagnosis  of  com- 
municable diseases  shall  be  conducted  or  maintained  in 
the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  therefor  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  Regulations  of  the  said  Board.  (As  adopted  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  106.  Wood  Alcohol  Poisoning  to  be  reported. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  manager  cr  managers,  super- 
intendent, or  person  in  charge  of  every  hospital,  institu- 
tion, or  dispensary  in  the  City  of  New  York  to  report 
immediately  to  the  Department  of  Health  the  name, 
age,  and  address  of  every  occupant  or  inmate  thereof, 
or  person  treated  therein,  affected  with  wood  alcohol  or 
wood  naphtha  poisoning;  and  it  shall  also  be  the  duty 
of  every  physician  in  said  City  to  make  immediately 
a  similar  report  to  the  Department  of  Health  relative  to 
any  person  found  by  such  physician  to  be  affected  with 
wood  alcoholor  wood  naphtha  poisoning.  (As  adopted 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  31,  1919.) 

ARTICLE   8. 

Drugs  and  Medicines. 

Sec.  116.  Drugs;  manufacture  and  sale  regulated;  the 
terms  '"drugs,"  "adulterated,"  and  "mis- 
branded"  defined. 


Section  116  47 

117.  Regulating  the  sale  of  proprietary  and  patent 

medicines. 

118.  Drugs,     medicines,     decoctions,     and     drinks; 

fraudulent  representation  prohibited. 

119.  Proprietary  medicines;     distributions  of  sam- 

ples regulated. 

120.  Living  bacterial  and  other  micro-organisms. 

121.  Free  distribution  of  vaccine,  antitoxin,  serum 

and  cultures  regulated. 

Poison;    sale  and  distribution  regulated. 

Carbolic  acid;    sale  regulated. 

Wood  naphtha,  otherwise  known  as  wood 
alcohol  or  methyl  alcohol;  sale  and  dis- 
tribution regulated. 

125.  Bichloride  of  mercury;    sale  regulated. 

126.  Habit   forming   drugs;     sale   and   distribution 

regulated. 

127.  Habit  forming  drugs,  disposing  of  confiscated. 

128.  Hair  dyes  and  other  toilet  preparations;    sale 

and  distribution  regulated. 

129.  Condemnation  and  destruction  of  drugs  author- 

ized. 


Sec.  116.  Drugs;  Manufacture  and  Sale  Regulated; 
the  Terms  "Drugs,"  "Adulterated,"  and  "Misbranded" 
Defined. — Xo  person  shall  manufacture  or  produce,  or 
have,  sell,  or  offer  for  sale,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  any 
drug  which  is  adulterated  or  misbranded.  The  term 
drug  as  herein  used  shall  include  all  medicines  for  external 
or  internal  use,  or  both.  Drugs  as  herein  denned  shall  be 
deemed  adulterated: 

(1)  If,  when  sold  by  or  under  a  name  recognized  in  the 
United    States    Pharmacopoeia    or    National    Formulary, 


48  Section  116 

it  differs  from  the  standard  of  strength,  quality,  or  purity, 
as  stated  in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  or  National 
Formulary  at  the  time  of  investigation. 

(2)  If  its  strength  or  purity  falls  below  or  its  strength 
is  in  excess  of  the  professed  standard  under  which  it  is  sold. 

A  drug  shall  be  deemed  misbranded: 

(a)  If  it  is  an  imitation  or  offered  for  sale  under  the 
distinctive  name  of  another  article. 

(b)  If  the  contents  of  the  package  as  originally  put 
up  shall  have  been  removed,  in  whole  or  in  part,  and  other 
contents  shall  have  been  placed  in  such  package,  or  if  the 
package  fails  to  bear  a  statement,  on  the  label  thereof, 
of  the  quantity  or  proportion  of  any  alcohol,  morphine, 
opium,  cocaine,  heroin,  alpha  or  beta  eucaine  chloroform, 
cannabis,  indica,  chloral  hydrate,  or  acetanilid,  or  any 
derivative  or  preparation  of  any  such  substances,  contained 
therein. 

(c)  If  the  package  or  label  bear  or  contain  any  state- 
ment, design,  or  device,  regarding  the  drugs  or  its  in- 
gredients, or  regarding  its  or  their  action  on  diseased 
conditions,  which  statement,  design,  or  device  shall  be 
false  or  misleading  in  any  particular. 

(d)  If  a  box,  bottle,  or  package,  containing  virus, 
therapeutic  serum,  toxin,  antitoxin,  or  analogous  product, 
fails  to  bear  on  the  outside  thereof,  conspicuously,  clearly, 
and  legibly  set  forth,  in  English,  the  proper  name  of  the 
substance  therein  contained,  the  name  and  address  of  the 
person,  persons,  firm,  or  corporation  by  whom  or  by 
which  the  said  substance  has  been  prepared,  the  date 
beyond  which  the  said  substance  cannot  be  reasonably 
expected  to  produce  the  result  or  results  for  which  it  has 
been  prepared,  and  (if  such  license  shall  have  been  ob- 
tained) the  United  States  license  number  of  the  establish- 
ment in   which  the  said   substance  has  been  prepared; 


Section  117  49 

and,  in  the  case  of  diphtheria  and  tetanus  antitoxin,  if  the 
box,  bottle,  or  package  containing  such  antitoxin  shall 
fail  to  bear  on  the  outside  thereof  conspicuously,  clearly, 
and  legibly  set  forth,  in  English,  the  value  of  the  contents 
thereof  as  an  antitoxin,  which  value  shall  be  measured 
according  to  and  stated  in  the  terms  of  some  generally 
recognized  standard. 

(e)  If  any  proprietary  or  patent  medicine  to  which 
the  provisions  of  Section  117  of  this  Code  relate  shall 
fail  to  contain  every  ingredient,  the  name  of  which  shall 
have  been  filed  in  the  Department  of  Health,  pursuant 
to  said  Section  117  of  this  Code,  as  a  constituent  part 
of  said  medicine;  or  if  such  proprietary  or  patent  medicine 
shall  contain  any  ingredient  the  name  of  which  is  required 
by  the  provisions  of  Section  117  of  this  Code,  to  be  filed 
in  the  said  Department,  which  name  has  not  been  so  filed. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  69.)  (The  provisions  of  subdivision  (e) 
shall  take  effect  December  31,  1915.) 

(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  October  26, 
1915,  and  as  further  amended  February  25,  1920.) 

Sec.  117.  Regulating  the  sale  of  proprietary  and  pat- 
ent medicines. — Xo  proprietary  or  patent  medicine 
manufactured,  prepared,  or  intended  for  internal  human 
use,  shall  be  held,  offered  for  sale,  sold,  or  given  away, 
in  the  City  of  Xew  York,  until  the  following  requirements 
shall,  in  each  instance,  have  been  met: 

The  names  of  the  ingredients  of  every  such  medicine 
to  which  the  therapeutic  effects  claimed  are  attributed 
and  the  names  of  all  other  ingredients  except  such  as  are 
physiologically  inactive  shall  be  registered  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  in  such  manner  as  the  Regulations  of  the 
Board  of  Health  may  prescribe. 

The  expression  "proprietary  or  patent  medicine," 
for  the  purposes  of  this  section,  shall  be  taken  to  mean 


50  Section  117 

and  include  every  medicine  or  medicinal  compound, 
manufactured,  prepared,  or  intended,  for  internal  human 
use,  the  name,  composition,  or  definition  of  which  is  not 
to  be  found  in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  or 
National  Formulary,  or  which  does  not  bear  the  names 
of  all  of  the  ingredients  to  which  the  therapeutic  effects 
claimed  are  attributed  and  the  names  of  all  other  ingredi- 
ents except  such  as  are  physiologically  inactive,  con- 
spicuously, clearly,  and  legibly  set  forth,  in  English,  on 
the  outside  of  each  bottle,  box,  or  package  in  which  the 
said  medicine  or  medicinal  compound  is  held,  offered  for 
sale,  sold,  or  given  away. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not,  however,  apply 
to  any  medicine  or  medicinal  compound,  prepared  or 
compounded  upon  the  written  prescription  of  a  duly 
licensed  physician,  provided  that  such  prescription  be 
written  or  issued  for  a  specific  person  and  not  for  general 
use,  and  that  such  medicine  or  medicinal  compound  be 
sold  or  given  away  to  or  for  the  use  of  the  person  for  whom 
it  shall  have  been  prescribed  and  prepared  or  compounded; 
and  provided,  also,  that  the  said  prescription  shall  have 
been  filed  at  the  establishment  or  place  where  such 
medicine  or  medicinal  compound  is  sold  or  given  away, 
in  chronological  order  according  to  the  date  of  the  receipt 
of  such  prescription  at  such  establishment  or  place. 

Every  such  prescription  shall  remain  so  filed  for  a  period 
of  five  years. 

The  names  of  the  ingredients  of  proprietary  and  patent 
medicines,  registered  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  this 
section,  and  all  information  relating  thereto  or  connected 
therewith,  shall  be  regarded  as  confidential,  and  shall  not 
be  open  to  inspection  by  the  public  or  any  person  other 
than  the  official  custodian  of  such  records  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health,  such  persons  as  may  be  authorized  by 


Sections  118  and  119  .51 

law  to  inspect  such  records,  and  those  duly  authorized 
to  prosecute  or  enforce  the  Federal  Statutes,  the  Laws 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  both  criminal  and  civil,  and 
the  Ordinances  of  the  City  of  New  York,  but  only  for 
the  prupose  of  such  prosecution  or  enforcement. 

Provided,  however,  the  provisions  of  this  Section  shall 
not  apply  to  existing  stores  of  merchandise  in  the  hands 
of  druggists  or  other  dealers  who  do  not  know  the  in- 
gredients and  cannot  state  them.  (As  amended  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  June  30,  1915,  and  as  amended  October 
26,  1915,  and  as  further  amended  February  25,  1919.) 

Sec.  118.  Drugs,  medicines,  decoctions,  and  drinks; 
fraudulent  representation  prohibited. — No  person  shall 
make,  prepare,  put  up,  administer,  or  dispense  any  pre- 
scription, decoction,  or  medicine,  under  any  false  or  mis- 
leading name,  direction,  or  pretense;  nor  shall  any  in- 
gredient be  substituted  for  another  in  any  prescription, 
nor  shall  any  false  or  misleading  representation  be  made 
by  any  person  to  any  other,  as  to  the  kind,  quality,  pur- 
pose, or  effect  of  any  drug,  medicine,  decoction,  drink, 
or  other  substance,  offered  or  intended  to  be  taken  as 
food  or  medicine.      (S.  C.  Sec.  65.) 

Sec.  119.  Proprietary  medicines;  distributions  of 
samples  regulated. — No  person  shall,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  distribute,  free  of  charge,  or  throw  away  any  nos- 
trum, proprietary  medicine,  or  other  substance  of  an 
alleged  medicinal  or  curative  character,  intended  for 
internal  human  use,  in  any  street  or  public  place,  or  from 
door  to  door,  or  by  depositing  the  same  upon  private 
premises. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not,  however,  apply 
to  the  distribution  by  manufacturers  or  wholesale  dealers 
of  samples  of  any  such  substance  to  physicians  or  to  the 
trade. 


52  Sections  120,  121  and  122 

Sec.  120.     Living  bacterial  and  other  microorganisms. — 

The  use  of  living  bacterial  organisms  in  the  inoculation 
of  human  beings  for  the  prevention  or  treatment  of 
disease  and  the  sale  or  distribution  of  any  preparation 
containing  living  microorganisms  capable  of  causing  in- 
fection in  man  or  animals  are  prohibited  until  full  and 
complete  data  regarding  the  method  of  use,  including  a 
specimen  of  the  culture  and  other  agents  employed  there- 
with, and  a  full  account  of  the  details  of  preparation, 
dosage,  and  administration  shall  have  been  submitted 
to  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  per- 
mission shall  have  been  granted  in  writing  by  the  said 
Board  for  such  use,  sale,  or  distribution.  (S.  C.  Sec.  148A.) 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  121.  Free  distribution  of  vaccine,  antitoxin, 
serum  and  cultures  regulated. — Any  duly  licensed  physi- 
cian who  shall  find  it  necessary  to  administer  any  vac- 
cine, antitoxin,  serum,  or  culture  to  a  patient  too  poor, 
or  dependent  upon  another  or  others  too  poor  to  pay 
for  such  vaccine,  antitoxin,  serum,  or  culture,  may  receive, 
free  of  charge,  the  requisite  quantity  thereof  upon  appli- 
cation to  the  Department  of  Health  or  any  of  its  duly 
authorized  agents,  provided  that  such  physician  shall 
sign  a  stipulation  to  the  effect  that  he  or  she,  as  the  case 
may  be,  will  not  exact  or  receive  from  such  patient  any 
pay  for  such  vaccine,  antitoxin,  serum,  or  culture. 

Any  such  physician,  however,  who  shall  exact  or  receive 
such  pay  after  having  signed  such  stipulation  shall  be 
deemed  to  have  violated  the  provisions  of  this  section. 

Every  such  stipulation  shall  be  filed  in  the  Department 
of  Health. 

Sec.  122.  Poison;  sale  and  distribution  regulated. — 
No  person  shall  sell  at  retail  or  give  away  any  poison 
without  affixing  or  causing  to  be  affixed  to  the  bottle, 


Sections  123  and  124  53 

box,  package,  parcel,  or  receptacle,  containing  such 
poison,  a  label  upon  which  shall  be  printed  in  red  ink,  in 
plain  legible  characters,  the  name  of  the  substance  or 
article,  the  word  "POISON,"  the  name  and  place  of  busi- 
ness of  the  seller,  or  donor,  if  the  poison  be  given  away, 
a  skull  and  crossbones,  the  word  "CAUTION,"  the  maxi- 
mum dose  of  the  poison,  and  the  antidote  therefor. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to 
medicinal  compounds  containing  poisonous  drugs  in 
therapeutic  doses  when  the  maximum  dose  of  such  prepa- 
ration is  marked  upon  the  container.      (S.  C.  Sec.  66.) 

Sec.  123.  Carbolic  acid;  sale  regulated.— No  phenol, 
commonly  known  as  carbolic  acid,  shall  be  sold  at  retail 
by  any  person  in  the  City  of  New  York,  except  upon  the 
written  prescription  of  a  duly  licensed  physician,  when 
in  a  stronger  solution  than  five  per  cent.      (S.  C.  Sec.  67.) 

Sec.  124.  Wood  naphtha,  otherwise  known  as  wood 
alcohol  or  metlryl  alcohol;  sale  and  distribution  regu- 
lated.— No  person  shall  sell,  offer  for  sale,  give  away, 
;  deal  in,  or  supply,  or  have  in  his  or  her  possession  with 
intent  to  sell,  offer  for  sale,  give  away,  deal  in,  or  supply, 
any  article  of  food  or  drink  or  any  medicinal  or  toilet 
preparations,  intended  for  human  use  internally  or  ex- 
ternally, which  contains  any  wood  naphtha,  otherwise 
known  as  wood  alcohol  or  methyl  alcohol,  either  crude  or 
refined,  whatever  may  be  the  name  or  trade  mark  under 
or  by  which  the  said  wood  naphtha  shall  be  called  or 
known. 

No  person  shall  sell,  offer  for  sale,  give  away,  deal  in, 
or  supply,  or  have  in  his  or  her  possession  with  intent  to 
sell,  offer  for  sale,  give  away,  deal  in,  or  supply,  any  wood 
naphtha,  otherwise  known  as  wood  alcohol,  or  methyl 
alcohol,  either  crude  or  refined,  whatever  may  be  the 
name  or  trade  mark  under  or  by  which  the  said  wood 


54  Sections  125  and  126 

naphtha  shall  be  called  or  known,  unless  the  container 
in  which  the  same  is  sold,  offered  for  sale,  given  away, 
dealt  in,  or  supplied,  shall  bear  a  notice  containing  the 
following  device  and  words  conspicuously  printed  or 
stenciled  thereon,  viz.: 

(Skull  and  crossbones  represented.) 

POISON. 
WOOD    NAPHTHA   OR   WOOD   ALCOHOL. 

WARNING. — It  is  unlawful  to  use  this  fluid  in  any 
article  of  food,  beverage,  or  medicinal  or  toilet  prepara- 
tion, ixitended  for  internal  or  external  human  use.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  66a.) 

Sec.  125.  Bichloride  of  mercury;  sale  regulated. — 
No  person  shall  sell  or  offer  for  sale,  at  retail,  bichloride 
of  mercury,  otherwise  known  as  corrosive  sublimate,  in 
the  dry  form,  except  upon  the  written  prescription  of  a 
duly  licensed  physician  or  veterinary  surgeon,  and,  then, 
only  in  tablets  of  a  particularly  distinctive  form  and  color, 
labeled  "POISON"  upon  each  tablet,  and  dispensed  in 
sealed  glass  containers  conspicuously  labeled  with  the 
word  "POISON"  in  red  letters. 

This  section  shall  not  apply  to  any  preparation  con- 
taining one-tenth  of  a  grain  or  less  of  bichloride  of  mer- 
cury.     (S.  C.  Sec.  67a.) 

Sec.  126.  Habit  forming  drugs;  sale  and  distribution 
regulated. — No  pharmacist,  druggist  or  other  person 
shall  sell,  have  or  offer  for  sale  or  give  away  any  chloral, 
opium  or  an}*  of  its  salts,  alkaloids  or  derivatives  or  any 
compound  or  preparation  of  any  of  them  except  upon  the 
written  prescription  of  a  duly  licensed  physician,  veter- 
inarian or  dentist,  'provided  that  the  provisions  of  this 
article  shall  not  apply  to  the  sale  of  domestic  and  pro- 


Section  127  55 

prietary  remedies,  nor  to  physicians'  prescriptions,  com- 
pounded solely  for  the  person  named  in  the  original  pre- 
scription, actually  sold  in  good  faith  as  medicines  and 
not  for  the  purpose  of  evading  the  provisions  of  this  article 
and  provided  further  that  such  remedies  and  prepara- 
tions do  not  contain  more  than  two  grains  of  opium,  or 
one-fourth  grain  of  morphine  or  one-eighth  grain  of 
heroin,  or  one  grain  of  codeine,  or  ten  grains  of  chloral  or 
their  salts  in  one  fluid  ounce,  or  if  a  solid  preparation, 
in  one  avoirdupois  ounce,  nor  to  plasters,  liniments,  and 
ointments  for  external  use  only. 

The  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  not,  however, 
apply  to  the  sale,  offering  for  sale,  or  the  giving  away  or 
dispensing  of  the  drugs  mentioned  in  this  Section  to  any 
child  under  the  age  of  16  years,  inasmuch  as  such  act  is 
made  a  felony  by  the  provisions  of  Section  249-d  of  the 
Public  Health  Law.  (Chapter  45  of  the  Consolidated 
Laws.)  (S.  C.  Sec.  182.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  June  30.  1915.) 

Sec.  127.  Habit  forming  drugs;  disposing  of  con- 
fiscated.— All  cocaine,  eucain,  and  other  drugs  and  sub- 
stances embraced  within  the  scope  of  Section  1746  of 
the  Penal  Law  and  all  chloral,  opium,  morphine,  heroin, 
codein,  and  other  drugs  and  substances  embraced  within 
the  scope  of  Article  11-a  of  the  Public  Health  Law,  of 
which  the  Police  Department  shall  have  taken  possession 
pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  said  Section  1746  of  the 
Penal  Law  or  said  Article  11-a  of  the  Public  Health  Law 
shall,  when  no  longer  required  for  the  purposes  of  prose- 
cution or  held  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the  Court,  be 
turned  over  to  the  Department  of  Health,  and  shall  be 
destroyed  or  otherwise  disposed  of  by  the  said  depart- 
ment as  the  Board  of  Health  shall  direct.  (As  adopted  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  August  24,  1915.) 


56  Sections  128  and  129 

Sec.  128.  Hair  dyes  and  other  toilet  preparations; 
sale  and  distribution  regulated. — No  person  shall  sell, 
offer  for  sale,  give  away,  deal  in,  or  supply  or  have  in 
his  or  her  possession  with  intent  to  sell,  offer  for  sale, 
give  away,  deal  in,  or  supply,  any  hair  dye  or  other  toilet 
preparation,  intended  for  human  use,  which,  by  reason 
of  the  presence  of  any  ingredient  or  ingredients  therein 
■contained,  shall  be  detrimental  or  injurious  to  health. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  129.  Condemnation  and  destruction  of  drugs 
authorized. — Upon  any  drug  or  medicine  being  found 
by  an  inspector  or  other  duly  authorized  representative 
of  the  Department  of  Health  in  a  condition  which  renders 
it,  in  his  opinion,  unfit  for  human  use,  externally  or  in- 
ternally, or  in  a  condition  or  of  a  weight,  quality,  or 
strength,  forbidden  by  the  provisions  of  the  Sanitary 
Code,  such  inspector  or  duly  authorized  representative 
of  the  said  Department  is  hereby  empowered  and  directed 
to  immediately  seize  the  said  drug  or  medicine  and 
affix  thereto  a  label  bearing  the  words  "Seized  by  the 
Board  of  Health."  Such  drug  or  medicine  when  so 
labelled  shall  not  be  touched, disturbed,  sold,  offered,  for 
sale,  or  given  away,  but  shall  be  released,  destroyed,  or 
otherwise  finally  disposed  of,  as  the  Board  of  Health  .shall 
direct.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December 
28,  1916.) 

ARTICLE   o. 
Food  and  Drink. 

Sec.  136.     Inspection     of    food     and     other     substances 

authorized. 
Sec.  137.     Condemnation    and    destruction    of    animals 

and  foods  authorized. 


Article  9  57 

138.  Possession  of  food,  prima  facie,  deemed  to  be 

held  for  sale. 

139.  Food;      sale    of    adulterated    or    misbranded 

prohibited;  the  terms  "food,"  "adulter- 
ated," and  "misbranded"  defined. 

140.  Food  and  drink;    not  to  be  sold  under  a  false 

name  or  quality. 

141.  Poisonous,  deleterious,  and  unwholesome  sub- 

stances;   use  as  food  prohibited. 

142.  Food;    to  be  protected  from  dust,  dirt,  flies, 

or  other  contamination. 

143.  Eating    and    drinking   utensils;     use   in    com- 

mon prohibited;  the  term  "public  place" 
and  "factory"  defined. 

144.  Cooking,     eating,     and    drinking    utensils    to 

be  properly  cleansed  after  being  used. 

145.  Beverages  and  drinks;   the  use  of  taps,  faucets, 

tanks,   fountains,   and  vessels  regulated. 
140.     Employment    of    persons    affected    with    in- 
fectious or  venereal  disease  prohibited. 

147.  Room,  factory,  stall,  place,  and  appurtenances 

to  be  kept  in  a  cleanly  and  wholesome  con- 
dition; food,  drugs  and  drink  to  be  clean 
and  wholesome,  and  not  poisoned,  infected, 
or  rendered  unsafe;  personal  responsibility 
of  owner,  lessee,  occupant,  or  person  in 
charge. 

148.  Manufacture  and  storage  of  food  and  drink 

regulated. 

149.  Conduct     and     maintenance     of     restaurants 

regulated:     Permit  required. 

150.  The  care  and  sale  of  food  and  drink  in  stores 

regulated. 


58  Article  9 

Sec.  151.  Unwholesome,  unclean,  watered  or  adul- 
terated milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream, 
and  skimmed  milk,  cream,  butter  or 
cheese  made  therefrom;  possession  and 
sale  prohibited . 

Sec.  152.  Adulterated  milk  and  cream;  distribution 
prohibited;      term    "adulterated"    denned. 

Sec.  153.  Adulterated  milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream, 
seizure  and  destruction  authorized. 

Sec.  154.  Condensed,  and  condensed  skimmed  milk; 
possession  and  sale  regulated;  the  term 
"adulterated"    denned. 

Sec.  155.  Milk,  cream,  condensed,  or  concentrated 
milk,  condensed  skimmed  milk,  and  modi- 
fied milk;  sale  regulated;  term  "modified 
milk"  defined;    exception. 

Sec.  156.  Milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream,  grades  and 
designations. 

Sec.  157.  Milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream;  must  con- 
form to  grade  standards. 

Sec.  158.  Buttermilk,  sour  milk,  sour  cream,  and  other 
milk  products;  quality  of  product  regulated. 

Sec.  159.  Bottles,  cans,  and  other  receptacles  for  holding 
milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream;  use  regu- 
lated and  restricted. 

Sec.  160.  Calves,  pigs,  lambs,  fish,  birds,  and  fowl;  sale 
regulated. 

Sec.  161.  Cattle;  not  to  be  killed  while  in  an  over- 
heated, or  feverish  condition. 

Sec.  162.     Meat  and  dead  animals;    sale  regulated. 

Sec.  163.  Unhealthy,  unsound,  unwholesome,  and  unsafe 
meat,  vegetables  and  milk;  possession  and 
sale  prohibited;  terms  "meat,"  "vege- 
tables," and  "not  sound"  denned. 


Section  136  59 

Shell  fish;  sale  regulated. 

Artificial  or  natural  mineral,  spring,  or  other 

water;    manufacture  regulated. 
Public  water  supply;    purity  and  wholesome- 

ness  protected. 
Water;    duties  of  persons  in  authority. 
Water  from  wells;    the  use  thereof  regulated 

and  restricted. 
Drinking   hydrants;     water  therefrom  not  to 

be  rendered  unwholesome. 
Ice  cream;    manufacture  in  and  bringing  into 

the  City  of  Xew  York  regulated. 

171.  Shell  fish;    sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded 

prohibited. 

172.  Bringing  into  the  City  of  Xew  York  of  the 

carcasses  of  certain  animals  restricted. 

173.  Adulterated  skimmed  milk;    distribution  pro- 

hibited;  term  "adulterated  defined." 

174.  Reconstituted -milk    and    reconstituted-cream ; 

sale  regulated. 

175.  Adulterated     reconstituted-milk     and     recon- 

stituted-cream. 

176.  Bottles,  cans,  and  other  receptacles  for  holding 

reconstituted-milk  aid  reconstituted-cream 
use  regulated  and  restricted. 

177.  Ice  cream;    sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded 

prohibited;    the  terms  "ice  cream,"  "adul- 
terated,"   and    "misbranded"    defined. 
17S.     Food  Gelatine;  sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded 
prohibited;  the  term  "food  gelatine,"  "adul- 
terated," and  "misbranded"  defined. 


Sec.  136.     Inspection   of   food   and    other    substances 
authorized. — Dealers  in  food,  drugs,  and  all  other  sub- 


60  Section  137 

stances  used  or  intended  to  be  used  for  human  consump- 
tion, or  for  internal  or  external  human  use,  and  their 
agents,  and  all  persons  engaged  in  the  transportation 
thereof,  shall  allow  any  duly  authorized  representative 
of  the  Department  of  Health  to  freely  and  fully  inspect 
the  cattle,  meat,  fish,  vegetables,  milk,  and  other  food 
or  drugs,  as  well  as  all  other  substances  used  or  intended 
to  be  used  for  human  consumption,  or  for  internal  or 
external  human  use,  held  or  kept  by  them,  or  intended 
for  sale.  (S.  C.  Sec.  60.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  December  28,  1916.) 

Sec.  137.  Condemnation  and  destruction  of  animals 
and  foods  authorized. — Upon  any  cattle,  sheep,  swine  or 
other  animals,  fowl  or  other  birds,  meat,  fish,  vegetables, 
or  milk,  or  other  food  or  drink  being  found  by  any  in- 
spector or  other  duly  authorized  representative  of  the 
Department  of  Health  in  a  condition  which  renders  it 
or  them,  in  his  opinion,  unfit  for  use  as  human  food,  or 
in  a  condition  or  of  a  weight  or  quality  forbidden  by  pro- 
vision of  the  Sanitary  Code,  such  inspector  or  other  duly 
authorized  representative  of  the  said  Department  is 
hereby  empowered,  and  directed  to  immediately  condemn 
and,  when  possible,  denature  the  same  and  cause  it  or 
them  to  be  destroyed  or  removed  to  the  offal  or  garbage 
dock  for  destruction,  and  report  his  action  to  the  said 
Department  without  delay. 

And  the  owner  or  person  in  charge  thereof,  when  so 
directed  by  an  inspector  or  other  duly  authorized  repre- 
sentative of  the  said  Department  or  by  an  order  of  the 
Sanitary  Superintendent,  and  Assistant  Sanitary  Super- 
intendent, or  the  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Food  and 
Drugs  of  the  said  Department  shall  remove  or  cause 
the  same  to  be  removed  to  the  place  designated  by  such 
inspector  or  other  duly  authorized  representative  or  by 


riONs  138   vnd  139  61 

the  order  of  said  Sanitary  Superintendent  or  such 
Assistant  Sanitary  Superintendent  or  the  Director  of  the 
Bureau  of  Food  and  Drugs,  and  shall  not  sell,  offer  to 
sell,  or  dispose  of  the  same  for  human  food.  And  when, 
in  the  opinion  of  the  Sanitary  Superintendent  or  an 
Assistant  Sanitary  Superintendent,  or  the  Director  of 
the  Bureau  of  Food  and  Drugs,   any  such  meat,   fish, 

unilk,  vegetables,  or  other  food  or  drink  shall  be  unfit 
for  human  food,  or  any  such  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  or  other 
animals,  or  fowls  or  other  birds,  by  reason  of  disease,  or 
exposure  to  contagious  disease,  shall  be  unfit  for  human 

[food,  and  in  an  unfit  condition  to  remain  near  other 
animals  or  to  be  kept  alive,  the  Board  of  Health  may 

I  direct  the  same  to  be  destroyed  in  such  manner  as  the 
said  Board  shall  designate.  (S.  C.  Sec.  58.)  (As  amended 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  13S.  Possession  of  food  or  drugs,  prima  facie, 
deemed  to  be  held  for  sale. — Food  in  the  possession  of, 
or  held,  kept,  or  offered  for  sale  by,  a  dealer  in  food  shall, 
prima  facie,  be  deemed  to  be  held,  kept,  or  offered  for 
sale  as  human  food;  and  drugs  in  the  possession  of,  or 
held,  kept,  or  offered  for  sale  by,  a  dealer  in  drugs  shall, 
prima  facie,  be  deemed  to  be  held,  kept,  or  offered  for 
sale  for  internal  or  external  human  use.  (As  amended 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  28,  1916.) 

Sec.  139.  Food;  sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded 
prohibited;  the  terms  "food,"  "adulterated,"  and 
"misbranded"  defined. — Xo  person  shall  have,  sell,  or 
offer  for  sale  in  the  City  of  New  York  any  food  which 
is  adulterated  or  misbranded.  The  term  food  as  herein 
used  shall  include  every  article  of  food  and  every  bever- 
age used  by  man  and  all  confectionery. 

Food  as  herein  denned  shall  be  deemed  adulterated: 
(1)    If  any  substance  or  substances  has  or  have  been 


62  Section  139 

mixed  and  packed  with  it  so  as  to  reduce  or  lower  or 
injuriously  affect  its  quality  or  strength. 

(2)  If  any  inferior  or  cheaper  substance  has  been 
substituted  wholly  or  in  part  for  the  article. 

(3)  If  any  valuable  constituent  of  the  article  has  been 
wholly  or  in  part  abstracted. 

(4)  If  it  consists  wholly  or  in  part  of  diseased  or 
decomposed  or  putrid  or  rotten  animal  or  vegetable 
substance,  or  any  portion  of  any  animal  unfit  for  food, 
or  if  it  is  a  product  of  a  diseased  animal,  or  one  that  has 
died  otherwise  than  by  slaughter. 

(5)  If  it  is  colored  or  coated  or  polished  or  powdered, 
whereby  damage  is  concealed  or  it  is  made  to  appear 
better  than  it  really  is. 

(6)  It  if  contains  any  added  poisonous  ingredient, 
or  any  ingredient  which  may  render  it  injurious  to  health; 
or  if  it  contains  any  antiseptic  or  preservative  not  evident 
and  not  known  to  the  purchaser  or  consumer. 

(7)  If,  in  the  case  of  confectionery,  it  contains  terra 
alba,  barytes,  talc,  chrome  yellow,  or  other  mineral  sub- 
stance or  poisonous  color  or  flavor,  or  other  ingredient 
deleterious  or  detrimental  to  health;  or  any  vinous, 
malt,  or  spirituous  liquor  or  compound,  or  narcotic  drug. 

(8)  If,  in  the  case  of  spirituous,  fermented,  and  malt 
liquors,  it  contains  any  substance  or  ingredient  which 
is  not  normally  present  in  such  liquors,  or  which  may  be 
deleterious  or  detrimental  to  health  when  such  liquors 
are  used  as  beverages. 

Food  shall  be  deemed  misbranded : 

(a)  If  it  is  an  imitation  or  offered  for  sale  under  the 
distinctive  name  of  another  article. 

(b)  If  it  is  labeled  or  branded  so  as  to  deceive  or  mis- 
lead the  purchaser,  •  or  purport  to  be  a  foreign  product 
when  not  so ;   or  if  the  contents  of  the  package  as  originally 


Section  139  63 

put  up  shall  have  been  removed  in  whole  or  in  part  and 
other  contents  shall  have  been  placed  in  such  package; 
or  if  it  fails  to  bear  a  statement  on  the  label  of  the  quantity 
or  proportion  of  any  morphine,  opium,  cocaine,  heroin, 
alpha  or  beta  eucaine,  chloroform,  cannabis  indica, 
chloral  hydrate,  or  acetanilid,  or  any  derivative  or  prepa- 
ration of  any  such  substances,  contained  therein. 

(c)  If  in  package  form  and  the  contents  are  stated  in 
terms  of  weight  or  measure,  such  weight  or  measure  is  not 
plainly  and  correctly  stated  on  the  outside  of  the  package. 

(d)  If  the  package  or  its  label  shall  bear  any  statement, 
design,  or  device,  regarding  the  ingredients  or  the  sub- 
stances contained  therein,  which  statement,  design,  or 
device  shall  be  false  or  misleading  in  any  particular. 

Provided,  that  an  article  of  food  which  does  not  con- 
tain any  added  poisonous  or  deleterious  ingredient  shall 
not  be  deemed  to  be  adulterated  or  misbranded  in  the 
following  cases: 

First.  In  the  case  of  mixture  or  compounds  which 
may  be  now  or  from  time  to  time  hereafter  known  as 
articles  of  food,  under  their  own  distintcive  names,  and 
not  an  imitation  of  or  offered  for  sale  under  the  distinc- 
tive name  of  another  article,  if  the  name  be  accompanied 
on  the  same  label  or  brand  with  a  statement  of  the  place 
where  said  article  has  been  manuafactured  or  produced. 

Second.  In  the  case  of  articles  labeled,  branded,  or 
tagged,  so  as  to  plainly  indicate  that  they  are  compounds, 
imitations,  or  blends,  the  word  "compound,"  "imitation," 
or  "blend,"  as  the  case  may  be,  being  plainly  stated  on 
the  package  in  which  it  is  offered  for  sale;  provided,  that 
the  term  "blend,"  as  herein  used,  shall  be  construed  to 
mean  a  mixture  of  like  substances,  not  excluding  harm- 
less coloring  or  flavoring  ingredients  used  for  the  purpose 
of  coloring  and  flavoring  only. 


64  Sections  140,  141  and  142 

And  provided  further,  that  nothing  in  this  section 
shall  be  construed  as  requiring  or  compelling  proprietors 
or  manufacturers  of  proprietary  foods  which  contain  no 
unwholesome  added  ingredient  to  disclose  their  trade 
formulas,  except  in  so  far  as  the  provisions  of  this  section 
may  require  to  secure  freedom  from  adulteration  or  mis- 
branding.     (S.  C.  Sec.  68.) 

Sec.  140.  Food  and  drink;  not  to  be  sold  under  a 
false  name  or  quality. — No  meat,  fish,  fruit,  vegetables, 
eggs,  milk,  or  other  food  or  drink  shall  be  sold,  held,  or 
offered  for  sale,  under  a  false  name  or  quality,  nor  shall 
any  food  or  drink  which  is  not  wholesome,  sound,  and  safe 
for  human  consumption,  be  represented  as  being  whole- 
some, sound,  or  safe  for  human  consumption.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  48.) 

Sec.  141.  Poisonous,  deleterious,  and  unwholesome 
substances;  use  as  food  prohibited. — No  person,  being 
the  owner,  lessee,  manager,  or  in  charge  of  any  plaec  in 
which  food  or  drink  is  produced,  manufactured,  prepared, 
packed,  stored,  distributed,  offered  for  sale,  or  sold  shall 
therein  or  thereat,  offer  or  have,  for  food  or  drink,  or 
to  be  eaten  or  drunk,  any  poisonous,  deleterious,  or  un- 
wholesome substance,  or  allow  anything  to  be  done  or  to 
occur,  therein  or  thereat,  dangerous  to  life  or  prejudicial 
to  health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  47.) 

Sec.  142.  Food;  to  be  protected  from  dust,  dirt, 
flies,  or  other  contamination. — No  food  intended  for 
human  consumption  shall  be  kept,  sold,  offered  for  sale, 
displayed,  or  transported,  unless  protected  from  dust, 
dirt,  flies,  and  other  contamination;  nor  shall  any  food 
intended  for  human  consumption  be  deposited  or  allowed 
to  remain  within  a.  distance  2  feet  above  the  surface  of 
any  sidewalk,  street,  alley,  or  other  public  place,  or  the  | 
floor  of  any  building  where  exhibited,   unless  the  same 


Section  143  65 

shall  be  contained  in  boxes  or  other  receptacles,  so  as  to 
be  protected  from  dogs  and  other  animals  and  their 
excretions. 

Xo  candy,  bread,  pastry,  or  other  bakery  product 
intended  for  human  consumption,  shall  be  kept,  sold, 
offered  for  sale,  or  displayed  in  any  open  window  or 
doorway  of  a  building,  or  upon  any  stand,  or  pushcart, 
wagon,  or  other  vehicle  in  any  street  or  other  public  place, 
unless  such  candy  or  bread,  pastry,  or  other  bakery 
product  is  separately  wrapped  in  paper  or  contained  in  a 
cardboard  box  or  other  dust  and  flyproof  wrapper  or  con- 
tainer. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  take  effect  August 
16,  1919.  (S.  C.  Sec.  46.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  July  24,  1919.) 

Sec.  143.  Eating  and  drinking  utensils;  use  in  com- 
mon prohibited;  the  term  "public  place"  and  "factory" 
defined. — The  use  of  common  eating  or  drinking  uten- 
sils in  any  public  place,  park,  street  or  avenue,  public 
institution,  lodging  house,  hotel,  theatre,  factory,  school, 
public  hall,  railroad  car,  ferry  boat,  railway  station,  or 
ferry  house,  or  the  furnishing  of  any  such  common  eating 
or  drinking  utensils  for  use  in  any  such  place  is  hereby 
prohibited. 

The  term  "public  place"  as  used  herein  shall  be  con- 
strued to  include: 

(a)  Any  place  where  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise 
are  sold  or  offered  for  sale. 

(b)  Any  department,  bureau,  building,  or  office,  of  a 
municipal  corporation. 

The  term  "factory"  as  used  herein  shall  be  construed 
to  include  any  workshop  or  manufacturing  or  business 
establishment  where  persons  are  employed  at  labor. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  189.) 


66  Sections  144,  145  and  146 

Sec.  144.  Cooking,  eating,  and  drinking  utensils  to  be 
properly  cleansed  after  being  used. — All  utensils  used  in 
the  preparation,  service,  and  sale  of  any  food  or  drink 
intended  for  human  consumption  shall  be  properly  cleansed 
after  being  used,  and  no  such  utensil  shall,  under  any 
circumstances  be  used  a  second  time  unless  it  shall  have 
been,  after  the  previous  use  thereof,  so  cleansed.  In 
such  cleansing  the  use  of  water  which  has  become  insani- 
tary by  previous  use  is  prohibited. 

The  term  "properly  cleansed"  as  herein  used  shall  be 
taken  to  mean  cleansing  after  each  use  in  a  solution  of 
soap  powder  or  soda  in  hot  water  and  the  employment 
of  friction  supplied  by  means  of  a  brush  or  other  suitable 
implement  followed  by  rinsing  in  clean  hot  water;  by 
sterilization;  or  by  some  other  equally  effective  method. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  49  B.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
May  31,  1916.) 

Sec.  145.  Beverages  and  drinks;  the  use  of  taps, 
faucets,  tanks,  fountains,  and  vessels  regulated. — In 
the  manufacture,  sale,  or  keeping  for  sale,  of  any  beverage 
or  drink,  no  person  shall  keep  or  use  an}^  tap,  faucet, 
tank,  fountain,  or  vessel,  or  any  pipe  or  conduit,  in  con- 
nection therewith,  which  shall  be  composed  or  made, 
either  wholly  or  in  part,  of  lead,  or  other  metal  or  metallic 
substances  that  are  or  will  be  affected  by  liquids  so  that 
dangerous,  unwholesome,  or  deleterious  compounds  are 
formed  therein  or  thereby,  or  such  that  beer,  soda  water, 
syrups,  or  other  liquids,  or  any  beverage,  drink,  or  flavor- 
ing material  drawn  therefrom  shall  be  unwholesome, 
dangerous,  or  detrimental  to  health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  51.) 

Sec.  146.  Employment  of  persons  affected  with  in- 
fectious or  venereal  disease  prohibited. — No  person  who 
is  affected  with  any  infectious  disease,  or  with  any  venereal 
disease  in  a  communicable  form,  shall  work  or  be  per-    : 


Section  147  67 

mittcd  to  work  in  any  place  where  food  or  drink  is  pre- 
pared, cooked,  mixed,  baked,  exposed,  bottled,  packed, 
handled,  stored,  manufactured,  offered  for  sale,  or  sold. 
Whenever  required  by  a  Medical  Inspector  or  other  duly 
authorized  physician  of  the  Department  of  Health,  or 
by  an  order  of  the  Sanitary  Superintendent,  the  Director 
of  the  Bureau  of  Food  and  Drugs,  or  the  Director  of  the 
Bureau  of  Preventable  Diseases  of  the  said  Department, 
any  person  employed  in  any  such  place  shall  submit  to  a 
physical  examination  by  a  physician  in  the  employ  of  the 
said  Department.  Such  persons,  however,  may,  in  their 
discretion,  be  examined  by  their  own  private  physicians, 
provided  such  examinations  are  performed  in  accordance 
with  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health.  No  per- 
son who  refuses  to  submit  to  such  examination  shall  work 
or  be  permitted  to  work  in  any  such  place.  (As  amended 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915,  and  as 
further  amended  April  25,  1916.) 

Sec.  147.  Room,  factory,  stall,  place,  and  appurte- 
nances to  be  kept  in  a  cleanly  and  wholesome  condition; 
food,  drugs  and  drink  to  be  clean  and  wholesome,  and 
not  poisoned,  infected,  or  rendered  unsafe;  personal 
responsibility  of  owner,  lessee,  occupant,  or  person  in 
charge. — Every  person  being  the  owner,  lessee,  occupant, 
or  in  charge  of  any  room,  stall,  factory,  premises,  or  place 
where  any  food  or  drink  intended  for  human  consumption, 
or  drugs  intended  for  internal  or  external  human  use,  shall 
be  manufactured,  prepared,  stored,  kept,  held,  or  offered 
for  sale,  shall  put  and  keep  such  room,  stall,  factory, 
premises,  or  place,  and  its  appurtenances,  in  a  cleanly 
and  wholesome  condition,  and  every  person  having  charge, 
or  interested  or  engaged,  whether  as  principal  or  agent, 
in  the  care  or  in  respect  to  the  custody  or  sale,  of  any  food 
or  drink  intended  for  human  consumption,  or  drugs  in- 


68  Sections  148,  149  and  150 

tended  for  internal  or  external  human  use,  shall  put  and 
preserve  the  same  in  a  cleanly  and  wholesome  condition, 
and  shall  not  allow  the  same,  or  any  part  thereof,  to  be- 
come poisoned,  infected,  or  rendered  unsafe  or  .unwhole- 
some for  human  food  or  drink  or  for  internal  or  external 
human  use.  (S".  C.  Sec.  49.)  (As  amended  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  December  28,  1916.) 

Sec.  148.  Manufacture  and  storage  of  food  and 
drink  regulated. — Xo  building,  room,  or  place,  where 
food  or  drink  is  prepared,  cooked,  mixed,  baked,  exposed, 
bottled,  packed,  handled,  stored,  or  manufactured,  shall  be 
conducted,  operated,  maintained,  or  used  otherwise  than  in 
accordance  with  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  149.  Conduct  and  maintenance  of  restaurants 
regulated;  permit  required. — Xo  person  shall  conduct, 
operate,  or  maintain  any  restaurant  in  the  City  of  New 
York  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  said  permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  The 
term  "restaurant,"  as  herein  used,  shall  be  taken  to  mean 
and  include  every  buffet,  lunch  room,  grill  room,  lunch 
counter,  dining-room  of  hotel,  and  every  other  public 
place  where  food  is  served,  sold  and  consumed  on  the 
premises,  every  lunch  counter  in  a  saloon  where  food  is 
sold  or  given  away,  and  all  kitchens  appurtenant  thereto 
or  connected  therewith.  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  January  30,  1917.) 

Sec.  150.  The  care  and  sale  of  food  and  drink  in  stores 
regulated. — No  grocery  store,  butcher  store,  delicatessen 
store,  confectionery  store,  bakery  store,  milk  store,  butter 
and  egg  store,  fruit  and  vegetable  store,  fish  store,  or  other 
place  where  food  or  drink  is  handled,  stored,  offered  for  sale, 
or  sold,  shall  be  conducted  or  maintained  otherwise  than 
in  accordance  with  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health. 


Sections  151  and  L52  69 

Sec.  151.  Unwholesome,  unclean,  watered  or  adul- 
terated milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream  and  skimmed 
milk,  cream,  butter  or  cheese  made  therefrom;  possession 
and  sale  prohibited.  No  person  shall  have  at  any  place 
where  milk,  skimmed  milk,  cream,  butter  or  cheese  is 
kept  for  sale,  or  at  any  place  sell,  deliver,  offer,  or  have 
for  sale  or  keep  for  use,  nor  shall  any  person  bring  or  send 
to  the  City  of  New  York  any  milk,  skimmed  milk  or 
cream  which  is  unwholesome,  unclean,  watered  or  adul- 
terated or  milk  known  as  "swill  milk"  or  milk  from  cows 
or  other  animals  that  have  been  fed  in  whole  or  in  part 
on  swill,  distillery  waste  or  any  substance  in  a  state  of 
putrefaction  or  in  any  way  unwholesome,  or  milk  from 
sick  or  diseased  cows  or  other  animals,  or  any  cream, 
skimmed  milk,  butter  or  cheese  made  from  any  such  milk 
or  any  unwholesome  butter  or  cheese.  (S.  C.  Sec.  52). 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  28.  1917.) 

Sec.  152.  Adulterated  milk  and  cream;  distribution 
prohibited;  term  "adulterated"  defined.  No  milk 
which  is  adulterated,  reduced  or  changed  in  any  respect 
by  the  addition  of  water  or  other  substance  or  by  the 
removal  of  cream  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New 
York  or  held,  kept,  sold  or  offered  for  sale  at  any  place 
in  said  city;  nor  shall  any  person  or  corporation  keep, 
have,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  in  the  said  city  any  such  milk. 

No  cream  which  is  adulterated  shall  be  brought  into 
the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  kept,  sold  or  offered  for 
sale  in  said  city,  nor  shall  any  person  or  corporation  keep, 
have,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  in  said  city  any  such  cream. 
The  term  "cream"  shall  be  taken  to  mean  that  portion  of 
milk  represented  in  milk  fat  which  rises  to  the  surface  of 
milk  on  standing  or  is  separated  from  it  by  centrifugal 
force. 

Milk  or  cream  in  the  possession  of  or  held,  kept  or 


70  Section  152 

offered  for  sale  by  a  dealer  in  food  shall  prima  facie  be 
deemed  to  be  held,  kept  and  offered  for  sale  as  human  food. 

The  term  "adulterated"  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and 
include: 

First.  Milk  containing  more  than  eighty-eight  and 
one-half  per  centum  of  water  or  fluids. 

Second.  Milk  containing  less  than  eleven  and  one-half 
per  centum  of  milk  solids. 

Third.  Milk  containing  less  than  eight  and  one-half 
per  centum  of  solids  not  fat. 

Fourth.  Milk  from  which  any  part  of  the  cream  has 
been  removed. 

Fifth.  Milk  containing  less  than  three  per  centum 
of  fats. 

Sixth.  Cream  which  contains  less  than  eighteen  per 
centum  of  butter  fat. 

Seventh.  Milk  or  cream  from  milk  which  has  been 
drawn  from  animals  within  fifteen  days  before  or  five  days 
after  parturition. 

Eighth.  Milk  or  cream  from  milk  which  has  been 
drawn  from  animals  fed  on  distillery  waste  or  any  sub- 
stance in  a  state  of  putrefaction  or  on  any  unwholesome 
food. 

Ninth.  Milk  or  cream  from  milk  which  has  been 
drawn  from  cows  kept  in  a  crowded  or  unhealthy  con- 
dition. 

Tenth.  Milk  or  cream  which  has  been  diluted  with 
water  or  any  other  fluid  or  to  which  has  been  added  or 
into  which  has  been  introduced  any  foreign  substance 
whatever. 

Eleventh.  Milk  or  cream,  the  temperature  of  which 
is  higher  than  50  degrees  Fahrenheit  or  which  contains  an 
excessive  number  of  bacteria.  This  requirement  includes 
"Grade  C  Milk"  that  has  been  pasteurized. 


Sections  153  and  154  71 

Twelfth.  Milk  or  cream  from  milk  which  is  pro- 
duced in  violation  of  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of 
Health. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  applicable 
however,  to  modified  milk  held  or  offered  for  sale  under 
permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  to 
fcmmed  milk.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall, 
however,  apply  to  cream  sold  under  any  foreign  name 
meaning  cream,  such  as  smeteny,  crema  and  rahm,  and 
to  all  cream  products  and  preparations  such  as  homo- 
genized products  and  milk  curds.  The  provisions  con- 
cerning temperature  and  bacterial  content  shall  not 
apply  to  sour  cream.  (S.  C.  Sec.  53.)  (As  amended 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  153.  Adulterated  milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream; 
seizure  and  destruction  authorized. — Any  milk,  skimmed 
milk  or  cream  found  to  be  adulterated  which  has  been 
brought  into  the  City  of  Xew  York  or  is  held  or  offered 
for  sale  in  said  city  may  be  seized  and  destroyed  by  any 
inspector  or  other  officer  of  the  Department  of  Health 
authorized  to  inspect  the  said  milk  or  cream.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  54.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June 
28,  1917.) 

Sec.  154.  Condensed,  and  condensed  skimmed  milk; 
possession  and  sale  regulated;  the  term  "adulterated" 
defined. — Xo  condensed  milk  made  from  milk  produced 
and  handled  under  conditions  not  conforming  at  least 
to  the  requirements  of  those  designated  for  Grade  C,  or 
which  is  adulterated,  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of 
New  York  or  held,  kept,  sold,  or  offered  for  sale,  at  any 
place  in  said  city,  nor  shall  any  person  or  corporation 
have,  keep,  sell,  or  offer  for  sale  in  said  city  any  such 
condensed  milk.  The  term  "adulterated,"  when  used 
in  this  section,   refers  to  condensed  milk  in  which  the 


72  Sections  155  and  156 

amount  of  fat  is  less  than  twenty- five  per  centum  of  the 
milk  solids  contained  therein,  or  to  which  any  foreign 
substance  whatever  has  been  added,  excepting  sugars, 
as  in  preserved  milks. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  applicable," 
as  regards  the  amount  of  fat,  to  condensed  skimmed  milk 
held  or  offered  for  sale  under  a  permit  therefor  issued  by 
the  Board  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  55.) 

Sec.  155.  Milk,  skimmed  milk,  cream,  condensed 
or  concentrated  milk,  condensed  skimmed  milk  and 
modified  milk;  sale  regulated;  term  "modified  milk" 
defined;  exception.  No  milk,  skimmed  milk  cr  cream, 
condensed  or  concentrated  milk,  condensed  skimmed 
milk  or  modified  milk  shall  be  held,  kept,  offered  for  sale, 
sold  or  delivered  in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  per- 
mit issued  therefor  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise 
than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with 
the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 

By  the  term  "modified  milk"  is  meant  milk  of  any 
subdivision  of  the  classification  known  as  "Grade  A:  for 
Infants  and  Children,"  which  has  been  changed  by  the 
addition  of  water,  sugar  of  milk  or  other  substance  in- 
tended to  render  the  milk  suitable  for  infant  feeding. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  milk, 
skimmed  milk  or  cream  sold  in  hotels  and  restaurants, 
nor  to  condensed  milk  or  condensed  skimmed  milk  when 
contained  in  hermetically  sealed  cans.  (S.  C.  Sec.  56.) 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915, 
and  as  amended  June  28,  1917,  and  as  further  amended 
January  22,  1920.) 

Sec.  156.  Milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream;  grades 
and  designations.  All  milk,  skimmed  milk  or  cream 
held,  kept,  offered  for  sale,  sold  or  delivered  in  the  City 
of  New  York  shall  be  so  held,  kept,  offered  for  sale,  sold 


Section  157  7Z 

or  delivered  in  accordance  with  the  Regulations  of  the 
Board  of  Health  and  under  any  of  the  following  grades 
or  designations  and  not  otherwise: 

"Grade  A:    For  Infants  and  Children": 

1.  Milk,  skimmed  milk,  or  cream  (raw). 

2.  Milk,  skimmed  milk,  or  cream  (pasteurized). 
"Grade  B:    For  Adults": 

1.    Milk,  skimmed  milk,  or  cream  (pasteurized). 
"Grade    C:     For    Cooking    and    Manufacturing    Pur- 
poses only": 

1.    Milk,    skimmed   milk   or   cream   not   conforming 
to  the  requirements  of  any  of  the  subdivisions 
of  Grade  A  or  Grade  B  and  which  has  been 
pasteurized   according   to   the  Regulations  of 
the  Board  of   Health   or  boiled  for   at  least 
two  (2)  minutes. 
"Condensed  Skimmed  Milk." 
"Condensed  or  Concentrated  Milk." 
The   provisions   of   this   section   shall   apply   to   milk, 
skimmed  milk  or   cream  used  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
ducing or  used  in  preparation  of  sour  milk,  buttermilk, 
homogenized    milk,    milk    curds,    sour    cream,    Smeteny, 
Kumyss,    Matzoon,    Zoolak   and   other   similar   products 
or  preparations,  provided  that  any  such  product  or  prepa- 
ration be  held,  kept,  offered  for  sale,  sold  or  delivered  in 
the  City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  56a.)      (As  amended 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  28   1917.) 

Sec.  157.  Milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream;  must 
conform  to  grade  standards.  All  milk,  skimmed  milk 
or  cream  held,  kept,  offered  for  sale,  sold  or  delivered  in 
the  City  of  New  York  shall  conform  in  character  to  the 
standards  and  requirements  set  forth  in  Section  156  of  this 
Code  as  applicable  to  the  particular  grade  under  which 
such  milk  or  cream  shall  be  held,  kept,  offered  for  sale, 


74  Sections  158,  159  and  160 

sold  or  delivered.  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  158.  Buttermilk,  sour  milk,  sour  cream,  and 
other   milk   products;     quality    of   product   regulated. — 

Buttermilk,  sour  milk,  sour  cream,  Kumyss,  Matzoon, 
Zoolak,  and  similar  products  shall  not  be  made  from  any 
milk  or  cream  of  a  less  grade  than  that  designated  for 
grade  B  and  shall  be  pasteurized  before  being  put  through 
a  process  of  souring  or  fermentation.  Sour  cream  shall 
not  contain  a  less  percentage  of  fat  than  that  designated 
for  cream.      (S.  C.  Sec.  57.) 

Sec.  159.  Bottles,  cans  and  other  receptacles  for 
holding  milk,  skimmed  milk  and  cream;  use  regulated 
and  restricted. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  having 
in  their  possession  bottles,  cans  or  other  receptacles 
containing  milk,  skimmed  milk  or  cream  which  are  used 
in  the  transportation  or  delivery  of  milk,  skimmed  milk 
or  cream,  to  clean  or  cause  them  to  be  cleaned  imme- 
diately upon  emptying. 

Xo  person  shall  use  or  cause  or  allow  to  be  used  any 
receptacle  which  is  used  in  the  transportation  and 
delivery  of  milk,  skimmed  milk  or  cream  for  any  purpose 
whatsoever  other  than  the  holding  of  milk,  skimmed  milk 
or  cream;  nor  shall  any  person  receive  or  have  in  his 
possession  any  such  receptacle  which  has  not  been  washed 
after  holding  milk,  skimmed  milk  or  cream  or  which  is 
unclean  in  any  way.  (S.  C,  Sec.  183.)  (As  amended 
by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  160.  Calves,  pigs,  lambs,  fish,  birds,  and  fowl; 
sale  regulated. — Xo  calf,  or  the  meat  thereof,  shall  be 
brought  into  the  City  of  Xew  York  or  held,  sold,  or  offered 
for  sale  for  human  food,  which,  when  killed,  was  less  than 
four  weeks  old.  Xo  pig,  or  the  meat  thereof,  .shall  be 
brought  into  the  City  of  Xew  York,  or  held,   sold,   or 


Sections  161,  162  and  163  75 

offered  for  sale  for  human  food,  which,  when  killed,  was 
less  than  five  weeks  old.  No  lamb,  or  the  meat  thereof, 
shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York,  or  held,  sold, 
or  offered  for  sale  for  human  food,  which,  when  killed, 
was  less  than  eight  weeks  old.  Nor  shall  any  meagre, 
sickly,  or  unwholesome  fish,  birds,  or  fowl  be  brought 
into  said  City  or  held,  sold,  or  offered  for  sale  for  human 
food  therein.  (S.  C.  Sec.  43.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  161.  Cattle;  not  to  be  killed  while  in  an  over- 
heated, or  feverish  condition. — No  cattle  shall  be  killed 
for  human  food  while  in  an  overheated,  or  feverish  con- 
dition.    (S.  C.  Sec.  44.) 

Sec.  162.  Meat  and  dead  animals;  sale  regulated. — 
No  meat  or  dead  animal  above  the  size  of  a  rabbit  shall 
be  taken  to  any  public  or  private  market,  nor  shall  any 
such  meat  or  dead  animal  be  stored  or  held,  kept,  offered 
for  sale,  or  sold  in  any  such  place  until  the  same  shall 
have  been  fully  cooled  after  killing,  nor  until  the  entrails 
and  feet  (except  of  poultry  and  game  and  except  the  feet 
of  swine)  shall  have  been  removed.      (S.  C.  Sec.  45.) 

Sec.  163.  Unhealthy,  unsound,  unwholesome  and  un- 
safe meat,  vegetables  and  milk;  possession  and  sale 
prohibited;  terms  "meat,"  "vegetables,"  and  "not  sound" 
denned. — No  meat,  vegetables,  or  milk,  not  being  then 
healthy,  fresh,  sound,  wholesome,  or  safe  for  human  food 
or  the  meat  of  any  animal  that  died  by  disease  or  accident, 
shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  kept, 
offered  for  sale,  or  sold  as  such  food,  or  kept  or  stored, 
anywhere  in  said  city.  The  term  "meat,"  as  herein  used, 
shall  include  fish,  birds,  eggs,  and  fowl;  the  term  "vege- 
tables" shall  include  any  product,  substance,  or  article 
used  as  and  for  human  food  other  than  milk  or  meat; 
the  term  "not  sound"  shall  include  any  vegetable  that  is 


76  Sections  164  and  165 

wormy.  For  the  purpose  of  this  section,  any  meat, 
vegetables,  or  milk  in  possession  of,  or  held,  kept,  or 
offered  for  sale  by,  a  dealer  in  food,  shall,  prima  facie,  be 
deemed  to  be  held,  kept,  and  offered  for  sale  as  human 
food.      (S.  C.  Sec.  42.) 

Sec.  164.  Shellfish;  sale  regulated.  No  shellfish  shall 
be  brought  into,  or  held,  kept,  or  offered  for  sale,  any- 
where in  the  City  of  New  York,  without  a  permit  there- 
for issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in 
accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the 
Regulations  of  said  Board.  The  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  not  apply  to  the  sale  of  shellfish  in  hotels  or  restau- 
rants, where  such  shellfish  are  purchased  from  a  dealer 
holding  a  permit  from  the  Board  of  Health.  (S.  C.  Sec.  185.) 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  April  29,  1920.) 

Sec.  165.  Artificial  or  natural  mineral,  spring,  or 
other  waters;  manufacture  regulated. — It  shall  oe  the 
duty  of  every  wholesale  dealer,  manufacturer,  importer, 
or  other  person  who  manufactures  or  imports,  or  sells  at 
wholesale  in  the  City  of  New  York,  any  artificial  or  natural 
mineral,  spring,  or  other  water,  for  drinking  purposes, 
to  file,  under  oath,  with  the  Department  of  Health,  the 
name  of  such  water  and  the  exact  location  from  which  it 
is  obtained,  the  chemical  analysis  and  the  bacteriological 
examination  thereof,  and,  when  manufactured,  the  name 
of  every  substance  or  element  entering  into  its  composition. 

No  person  shall  manufacture  or  bottle,  any  mineral, 
carbonated,  or  table  water,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
without  a  permit  issued  therefor  by  the  Board  of  Health 
or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said 
permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  No 
permit  will  be  required,  however,  where  the  City  Water 
Supply  is  conducted  through  closed  pipes  and  connected 
with  a  carbonated  apparatus,  from  which  it  is  dispensed 


Sections  166,  167  and  168  77 

direct  to  the  consumer,  without  coming  in  contact  with 
the  air,  and  not  handled  in  any  way.      (S.  C.  Sec.  59.) 

Sec.  166.  Public  water  supply;  purity  and  whole- 
someness  protected. — No  person  shall  throw  or  allow 
to  run  or  pass  into  any  public  reservoir,  waterpipe,  or 
aqueduct,  or  into  or  upon  any  border  or  margin  thereof,, 
any  excavation  or  stream  therewith  connected,  any 
animal,  vegetable,  or  mineral  substance  whatever;  nor 
shall  any  person  (having  the  power  or  right  to  prevent 
the  same)  do  or  permit  any  act  or  thing  that  will  impair 
or  imperil  the  purity  or  wholesomeness  of  any  water  or 
other  fluid  used  or  intended  to  be  used  as  a  drink,  in  any 
part  of  said  city;  nor  shall  any  person  bathe  or  (except 
in  the  discharge  of  a  public  duty)  put  any  part  of  his 
person  into  such  water,  nor  shall  any  unauthorized  per- 
son open  any  erection  or  unscrew  any  hydrant  holding 
such  water.     (S.  C.  Sec.  61.) 

Sec.  167.  Water;  duties  of  persons  in  authority. — 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person,  official,  department,, 
and  board,  having  any  authority  and  control  in  regard 
to  any  water  intended  for  human  consumption  (and 
within  the  proper  sphere  of  the  duty  of  each  thereof),  to 
take  all  usual  and  also  all  reasonable  measures  and  pre- 
cautions to  secure  and  preserve  the  purity  and  whole- 
someness of  such  water.      (S.  C.  Sec.  62.) 

Sec.  168.  Water  from  wells;  the  use  thereof  regu- 
lated and  restricted. — Water  from  wells  in  the  Borough 
of  Mamhattan  shall  not  be  used,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
for  drink;  nor  shall  water  from  wells  in  the  Borough  of 
Mannattan  be  used  for  any  other  purpose  in  any  tene- 
ment, lodging-house,  hotel,  manufactory,  or  building, 
in  which  persons  are  living  or  employed,  or  in  which 
there  are  offices,  or  a  restaurant  or  saloon,  in  the  City  of 
New   York,    without    a   permit   therefor   issued   by   the 


78  Sectioxs  169,  170  and  171 

Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with 
the  terms  of  said  permit  and  the  Regulations  of  the  said 
Board.  Water  from  wells  in  the  other  Boroughs  of  said 
city,  other  than  the  public  water  supply,  shall  not  be  used 
in  any  tenement  or  lodging-house,  hotel,  manufactory, 
or  building,  in  which  persons  are  living  or  employed,  or 
in  which  there  are  offices,  or  a  restaurant  or  saloon, 
without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or 
otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  the  Regulations  of  the  said  Board.       (S.  C.  Sec.  63.) 

Sec.  169.  Drinking  hydrants;  water  therefrom  not 
to  be  rendered  unwholesome. — No  person  shall  destroy 
or  in  anywise  injure  or  impair  any  drinking  hydrant,  or 
part  thereof,  in  the  City  of  New  York;  nor  shall  any 
person  interfere  with  the  use  or  enjoyment  of  the  water 
therein  or  therefrom,  or  interrupt  the  flow  thereof;  nor 
shall  any  person  put  any  dirty,  poisonous,  medicinal,  or 
noxious  substance  into  or  near  said  water  or  hydrant, 
whereby  such  water  is  made  or  may  be  regarded  as, 
dangerous,  or  unwholesome  as  a  drink.      (S.  C.  Sec.  64.) 

Sec.  170.  Ice  cream;  manufacture  in  and  bringing 
into  the  City  of  New  York  regulated. — No  ice  cream  shall 
be  manufactured  in  or  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York 
for  sale  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 

Sec.  171.  Shellfish;  sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded 
prohibited. — No  person  shall  bring  into  the  City  of  New 
York,  or  have,  sell,  or  offer  for  sale  shellfish  which  are 
adulterated  or  misbranded. 

Shellfish  shall  be  deemed  adulterated: 

(1)  If,  after  removal  from  the  shell,  they  have  been 
subjected  to  a  process  whereby  their  solid  content  is 
decreased  or  their  volume  increased. 


Se<  riON   1 72  . '.> 

(2)  If  grown,  floated  or  cleansed  in  contaminated  water 
so  as  to  render  them  unfit  for  food. 

(3)  If  they  consist,  wholly  or  in  part,  of  diseased, 
decomposed,  putrid,  or  rotten  animal  or  vegetable  sub- 
stance. 

(4)  If  they  contain  any  antiseptic  or  preservative 
injurious  to  health. 

(5)  If  they  are  floated  in  water  of  a  lower  salinity  than 
the  water  in  which  they  are  grown. 

(6)  If  any  substance  or  substances  has  or  have  been 
mixed  and  packed  with  them  so  as  to  reduce  cr  lower  or 
injuriously  affect  their  quality  or  strength. 

(7)  If  after  removal  from  the  shell  they  are  cleansed 
in  fresh  water  or  water  of  a  lower  salinity  than  the  water 
in  which  they  are  grown. 

Shellfish  shall  be  deemed  misbranded: 

(a)  If  they  are  labeled  or  branded  so  as  to  deceive  or 
mislead  the  purchaser. 

(b)  If  the  container  or  its  label  shall  bear  any  state- 
ment, design,  or  device,  regarding  the  shellfish  or  the  other 
ingredients  contained  therein,  which  statement,  design, 
or  device  shall  be  false  or  misleading  in  any  particular. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  January  30,  1917, 
and  as  amended  April  29,  1919,  and  as  further  amended 
April  29,  1920.) 

Sec.  172.  Bringing  into  the  City  of  New  York  of  the 
carcasses  of  certain  animals  restricted. — Xo  carcasses 
or  parts  of  the  carcasses  of  cows,  bulls,  steers  or  swine 
shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  until  they 
shall  respectively  have  been  inspected  and  passed  as  fit 
for  human  food  by  a  duly  authorized  inspection  of  the 
United  States  Government  or  of  any  state  or  municipality 
and  shall  have  been  marked,  stamped,  branded,  tagged 
or  labeled  as  having  been  so  inspected  and  passed.      Pro- 


80  Section  173 

vided,  however,  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not 
apply  to  the  carcasses  of  cows,  bulls,  steers  or  swine  to 
which  are  attached,  by  their  natural  connections,  the 
head,  including  the  tongue,  the  lungs,  the  Hver,  the  heart, 
the  pleura,  the  peritoneum  and  all  body  lymph  glands. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  173.  Adulterated  skimmed  milk;  distribution 
prohibited;  term  "adulterated"  defined. — No  skimmed 
milk  which  is  adulterated  shall  be  brought  into  the  City 
of  New  York  or  held,  kept,  sold  or  offered  for  sale  in  said 
city;  nor  shall  any  person  or  corporation  keep,  have, 
sell  or  offer  for  sale  in  the  said  city  any  such  skimmed  milk. 

The  term  "skimmed  milk"  shall  be  taken  to  mean: 
Milk  from  which  all  or  part  of  the  cream  has  been 
removed. 

For  the  purpose  of  this  section  any  skimmed  milk  in 
possession  of  or  held,  kept  or  offered  for  sale  by  a  dealer 
in  food  shall  prima  facie  be  deemed  to  be  held,  kept  and 
offered  for  sale  as  human  food. 

The  term  "adulterated"  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and 
include : 

First.  Skimmed  milk  containing  less  than  eight  per 
centum  of  milk  solids  other  than  fat. 

Second.  Skimmed  milk  from  milk  which  has  been 
drawn  from  animals  within  fifteen  days  before  or  five 
days  after  parturition. 

Third.  Skimmed  milk  from  milk  which  has  been 
drawn  from  animals  fed  on  distillery  waste  or  any  sub- 
stance in  a  state  of  putrefaction  or  on  any  unwholesome 
food. 

Fourth.  Skimmed  milk  from  milk  which  has  been 
drawn  from  cows  kept  in  a  crowded  or  unhealthy  con- 
dition. 

Fifth.     Skimmed   milk   which   has   been   diluted   with 


Sections  174  and  17.")  81 

water  or  any  other  fluid  or  to  which  has  been  added  or 
into  which  has  been  introduced  any  foreign  substance 
whatever. 

Sixth.  Skimmed  milk,  the  temperature  of  which  is 
Egher  than  50  degrees  Fahrenheit  or  which  contains  an 
excessive  number  of  bacteria. 

Seventh.  Skimmed  milk  from  milk  which  is  pro- 
duced in  violation  of  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of 
Health.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  2S, 
i  1917.) 

Sec.  174.  Reconstituted-Milk  and  Reconstituted- 
Cream;  Sale  Regulated. — Xo  rcconstituted-milk  or 
reconstituted-cream  shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New 
York,  or  manufactured,  held,  kept,  sold  or  offered  for 
sale  at  any  place  in  said  city  without  a  permit  therefor 
issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  the  Regulations 
of  said  Board.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
November  27,  19 IS.) 

Sec.  175.  Adulterated  Reconstituted-Milk  and  Re- 
constituted-Cream. — Xo  reconstituted-milk  or  recon- 
stituted-cream which  is  adulterated,  reduced  or  changed 
in  any  respect  by  the  addition  of  water  or  other  substances, 
shall  be  brought  into  the  City  of  New  York  or  held,  kept, 
sold,  or  offered  for  sale,  at  any  place  in  said  city;  nor 
shall  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  keep,  have,  or  offer 
for  sale  in  said  city  any  such  reconstituted-milk  or  recon- 
stituted-cream. 

Reconstituted-milk  or  reconstituted-cream  in  the 
possession  of  or  held,  kept  or  offered  for  sale  by  a  dealer 
in  food  shall,  prima  facie,  be  deemed  to  be  held,  kept  and 
offered  for  sale  as  human  food. 

The  term  "adulterated"  shall  be  taken  to  mean  and  in- 
clude: 


82  Section  176 

First.  Reconstituted-milk  containing  more  than  eighty- 
eight  and  one-quarter  per  centum  of  water  or  fluids. 

Second.  Reconstituted-milk  containing  less  than  eleven 
and  three-quarters  per  centum  of  milk  solids. 

Third.  Reconstituted-milk  containing  less  than  eight 
and  one-half  per  centum  of  solids  not  fat. 

Fourth.  Reconstituted-milk  containing  less  than 
three  and  one-quarter  per  centum  of  fats. 

Fifth.  Reconstituted-cream  which  contains  less  than 
eighteen  per  centum  of  butter  fat. 

Sixth.  Reconstituted-milk  or  reconstituted-cream 
made  from  ingredients  which  are  rancid,  impure,  un- 
wholesome, adulterated,  unclean,  contaminated,  or  other- 
wise unfit  for  human  consumption. 

Seventh.  Reconstituted-milk  or  reconstituted-cream 
whicn  has  been  diluted  with  water  or  any  other  fluid,  or 
to  which  has  been  added,  or  into  which  has  been  intro- 
duced, any  foreign  substance  whatever. 

Eighth.  Reconstituted-milk  or  reconstitued-cream,  the 
temperature  of  which  is  higher  than  fifty  degrees  Fahren- 
heit, or  which  contains  an  excessive  number  of  bacteria. 

Ninth.  Reconstituted-milk  or  reconstituted-cream 
which  is  produced  in  violation  of  the  Regulations  of  the 
Board  of  Health.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
November  27,  1918.) 

Sec.  176.  Bottles,  cans  and  other  receptacles  for 
holding  reconstituted-milk  and  reconstituted-cream;  use 
regulated  and  restricted. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all 
persons  having  in  their  possession  bottles,  cans  or  other 
receptacles  containing  reconstituted-milk  or  reconstituted- 
cream,  which  are  used  in  the  transportation  or  delivery 
of  reconstituted-milk  or  i econstituted-cream,  to  clean  or 
cause  them  to  be  cleaned  immediately  upon  emptying. 

No  person  shall  use  or  cause  or  allow  to  be  used  any 


Section  177  83 

receptacle  which  is  used  in  the  transportation  and  delivery 
Df  reconstituted-milk  or  reconstituted-cream,  for  any 
purpose  whatsoever  other  than  the  holding  of  recon- 
stituted-milk or  reconstituted-cream;  nor  shall  any 
person  receive  or  have  in  his  possession  any  such  recep- 
tacle which  has  not  been  washed  after  holding  recon- 
stituted-milk or  reconstituted-cream,  or  which  is  unclean 
in  any  way.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  No- 
vember 27,  1918.) 

Sec.  177.  Ice  cream;  sale  of  adulterated  or  mis- 
branded  prohibited;  the  terms  "ice  cream,"  "adul- 
terated" and  "misbranded"  defined.— No  person  shall 
bring  into,  or  have,  sell,  or  offer  for  sale  in  the  City  of 
New  York,  any  ice  cream  which  is  adulterated  or  mis- 
branded.  The  term  "ice  cream"  as  herein  used  shall  be 
taken  to  mean  and  include  the  frozen  product  or  mix- 
ture made  from  pasteurized  cream,  milk,  or  product  of 
milk,  sweetened  with  sugar,  to  which  has  been  added 
pure,  wholesome  food  gelatin,  vegetable  gum  or  other 
thickener,  with  or  without  wholesome  flavoring  extract, 
fruits,  nuts,  cocoa,  chocolate,  eggs,  cake,  candy  or  con- 
fections, and  which  contains  not  less  than  eight  per  cent 
(8%),  by  weight,  of  milk  (butter)  fat. 

Ice  cream  as  herein  defined  shall  be  deemed  adul- 
terated: 

(1)  If  any  substance  or  substances  has  or  have  been 
mixed  and  packed  with  it  so  as  to  reduce  or  lower  or  in- 
juriously affect  its  quality  or  strength. 

(2)  If  any  inferior  or  cheaper  substance  has  been  sub- 
stituted wholly  or  in  part  for  the  article. 

(3)  If  any  valuable  constituent  of  the  article  has  been 
wholly  or  in  part  abstracted. 

(4)  If  it  consists  wholly  or  in  part  of  diseased  or 
decomposed  or  putrid  or  rotten  animal  or  vegetable  sub- 


84  Section  177 

stance,  or  any  portion  of  any  animal  unfit  for  food,  or 
if  it  is  a  product  of  a  diseased  animal,  or  one  that  has 
died  otherwise  than  by  slaughter. 

(5)  If  it  contains  any  added  poisonous  ingredient,  or 
any  ingredient  which  may  render  it  injurious  to  health; 
or  if  it  contains  any  antiseptic  or  preservative  not  evident : 
and  not  known  to  the  purchaser  or  consumer. 

(6)  If  it  contains  chrome  yellow,  saccharin,  salts  or 
copper,  iron  oxide,  formaldehyde,  boric  acid,  ochres,  or 
other  mineral  substance  or  poisonous  color  or  flavor,  or 
other  ingredient  deleterious  or  detrimental  to  health. 

(7)  If  it  contains  less  than  eight  per  cent  (8%)  by 
weight,  of  milk  (butter)  fat. 

(8)  If  it  contains  more  than  one  per  cent  (1%)  of  pure, 
wholesome,   gelatin,   vegetable  gum,   or  other  thickener. 

(9)  If  it  contains  any  added  vegetable  or  mineral  oils 
or  fats. 

Ice  cream  shall  be  deemed  misbranded: 

(a)  If  it  is  an  imitation  or  offered  for  sale  under  the 
distinctive  name  of  another  article  or  is  labeled  or  branded 
so  as  to  deceive  or  mislead  the  purchaser. 

(b)  If  in  package  form  and  the  contents  are  stated  in  the 
terms  of  weight  or  measure,  such  weight  or  measure  is 
not  plainly  and  correctly  stated  on  the  outside  of  the 
package. 

(c)  If  the  package  or  its  label  shall  bear  any  state- 
ment, design,  or  device  regarding  the  ingredients  or  the  sub- 
stances contained  therein,  which  statement,  design,  or 
device  shall  be  false  or  misleading  in  any  particular. 

The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not,  however,  apply 
to  mixtures  or  compounds  which  may  be  now,  or  from 
time  to  time  hereafter,  known  under  their  own  dis- 
tinctive names  and  not  an  imitation  of  or  offered  for 
sale  under  the  distinctive  name  of  ice  cream,  if  the  name 


Section  178  s"> 

be  accompanied  on  the  same  label  or  brand  with  a  state- 
ment of  the  date  and  place  where  said  article  has  been 
manufactured  or  produced.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  April  29,  1920.) 

Sec.  178.  Food  gelatin;  sale  of  adulterated  or  mis- 
branded  prohibited;  the  term  "food  gelatin,"  '"adul- 
terated"  and  "misbranded"  defined. — Xo  person  shall 
bring  into,  or  have,  keep,  offer  for  sale,  or  sell,  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  any  food  gelatin  which  is  adulterated  or 
misbranded.  The  term  food  gelatin  as  herein  used  shall 
be  taken  to  mean  and  include  a  purified  product  of  gelatin 
prepared  from  the  bones,  hides,  hoofs,  horns  and  tissues 
of  animals. 

Food  gelatin  as  herein  defined  shall  be  deemed  adul- 
terated: 

(1)  If  any  substance  or  substances  has  or  have  been 
mixed  and  packed  with  it  so  as  to  reduce  or  lower  or 
injuriously  affect  its  quality  or  strength. 

(2)  If  any  inferior  or  cheaper  substance  has  been 
substituted  wholly  or  in  part  for  the  article. 

(3)  If  it  consists  wholly  or  in  part  of  diseased  or 
decomposed  or  putrid  or  rotten  animal  or  vegetable 
substance,  or  if  it  is  a  product  of  a  diseased  animal. 

(4)  If  it  is  colored  or  coated  or  powdered  whereby 
damage  is  concealed  or  it  is  made  to  appear  better  than  it 
really  is. 

(5)  If  it  contains  any  antiseptic  or  preservative  not 
evident  and  not  known  to  the  purchaser  or  consumer. 

(6)  If  it  contains  more  than  thirty  (30)  parts  per 
million  of  copper,  or  one  and  four  tenths  (1.4)  parts  per 
million  of  arsenic,  or  one  hundred  (100)  parts  per  million 
of  zinc,  or  twenty  (20)  parts  per  million  of  lead,  or  three 
hundred  (300)  parts  per  million  of  tin,  or  two  one-hun- 
dredths  of  one  per  cent  (.02%)  of  sulphur  dioxide,  or  any 


86  Article  10 

other  added  poisonous  ingredient  or  any  ingredient  which 
may  render  it  injurious  to  health. 

Food  gelatin  as  herein  defined  shall  be  deemed  mis- 
branded: 

(a)  If  it  is  an  imitation  or  offered  for  sale  under  the 
distinctive  name  of  another  article. 

(b)  If  it  is  labeled  or  branded  so  as  to  deceive  or  mis- 
lead the  purchaser,  or  purport  to  be  a  foreign  product 
when  not  so;  or  if  the  contents  of  the  package  as  origi- 
nally put  up  shall  have  been  removed  in  whole  or  in  part 
and  other  contents  shall  have  been  placed  in  such 
package. 

(c)  If  in  package  form  and  the  contents  are  stated  in 
terms  of  weight  or  measure,  such  weight  or  measure  is  not 
plainly  and  correctly  stated  on  the  outside  of  the  package. 

(d)  If  the  package  or  label  shall  bear  any  statement, 
design,  or  device,  regarding  the  ingredients  or  the  sub- 
stances contained  therein,  which  statement,  design,  or 
device  shall  be  false  or  misleading  in  any  particular. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  April  29,  1920.) 

ARTICLE    10. 
General  Provisions. 

Sec.  181.     Misfeasance  and  nonfeasance. 

Sec.  182.  Contractors  must  comply  with  provisions  of 
the  Sanitary  Code. 

Sec.  183.  Nuisances;  conditions  dangerous  or  preju- 
dicial to  life  or  health;  duties  of  persons 
responsible. 

Sec.  184.  Regulations  and  orders;  to  be  observed  and 
obeyed. 

Sec.  185.     Abatement  of  nuisances. 


Sections  181,  182  and  183  87 

Sec.  1S6.  Interfering  with  or  obstructing  an  inspector. 
Sec.  1S7.  False,  untruthful,  or  misleading  statements. 
Sec.  1S8.     Affidavit  of  chemist;    presumptive  evidence  of 

facts. 
Sec.  1S9.     Notices  not  to  be  mutilated  or  torn  down. 


Sec.  181.  Misfeasance  and  nonfeasance. — Xo  person 
shall,  knowingly,  or  carelessly  or  negligently,  do  or  con- 
tribute to  the  doing  of,  any  act  dangerous  to  the  life  or 
detrimental  to  the  healtn,  of  any  human  being,  provided, 
however,  that  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  not  apply  to  a  necessary  act  authorized  by  law; 
nor  shall  any  person  omit  to  do  any  reasonable  and  proper 
act,  or  take  any  reasonable  or  proper  precaution,  to 
protect  human  life  and  health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  8.) 

Sec.  1S2.  Contractors  must  comply  with  provisions 
of  the  Sanitary  Code. — Every  contractor,  to  whom 
reference  is  made  in  the  Sanitary  Code,  and  every  person 
who  shall  have  contracted  or  undertaken,  or  shall  be 
bound,  to  do,  or  shall  be  engaged  in  doing,  any  of  the 
things  to  which  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  Sanitary  Code 
relate,  shall  comply  with  all  provisions  of  the  said  Code 
applying  to  the  work  undertaken  or  to  be  undertaken, 
and  he  shall  not  be  excused  for  non-compliance  with  any  of 
the  said  provisions  because  of  any  direction  given  by  any 
other  person.      (S.  C.  Sec.  9.) 

Sec.  1S3.  Nuisances;  conditions  dangerous  or  prej- 
udicial to  life  or  health;  duties  of  persons  responsible. — 
It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  part 
owner,  lessee,  tenant,  and  occupant,  of,  person  interested 
in,  any  place,  water,  ground,  room,  stall,  apartment, 
building,  erection,  vessel,  vehicle,  matter,  and  thing,  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  and  of  every  person  conducting 


88  Sections  184,  185  and  186 

or  interested  in  business  therein  or  thereat,  and  of  every 
person  who  has  undertaken  to  clean  any  place,  ground, 
or  street,  in  the  said  City,  and  of  every  person,  public 
officer,  and  department,  having  charge  of  any  ground, 
place,  building,  or  erection,  in  the  said  City,  to  keep, 
place,  and  preserve  the  same  and  the  sewerage,  drainage, 
and  ventilation  thereof  in  such  condition,  and  to  conduct 
the  same  in  such  manner,  that  it  shall  not  be  a  nuisance, 
or  be  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health.  The  term 
"building"  as  used  in  this  section,  includes  a  railway  car, 
booth,  tent,  shop  or  other  erection  or  enclosure.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  10.) 

Sec.  184.  Regulations  and  orders;  to  be  observed 
and  obeyed. — No  person  shall  violate,  or  refuse  or  neglect 
to  comply  with,  any  regulation  or  order  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  made  for  carrying  into  effect  the  provisions  of 
this  Code,  the  powers  of  the  said  Board,  or  the  laws  of  this 
State;  and  the  violation  of,  or  the  refusal  or  neglect  to 
comply  with,  any  such  regulation  or  order  which  relates 
to  the  provisions  of  any  section  of  this  Code  shah  be 
deemed  a  violation  of  such  section.      (S.  C.  Sec.  11.) 

Sec.  185.  Abatement  of  nuisances. — Whenever  in 
any  place  or  on  any  premises  in  the  City  of  New  York 
a  nuisance  shall  have  been  found,  or  declared  by  resolu- 
tion of  the  Board  of  Health  to  exist,  and  an  order  shall 
have  been  made  directing  the  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  or 
occupant  of  such  place  or  premises  to  make  suitable  and 
necessary  repairs  or  improvements,  or  to  abate  the  said 
nuisance,  such  repairs  or  improvements  shall  be  made, 
and  such  nuisance  shall  be  fully  abated,  within  the  time 
specified  in  said  order.      (S.  C.  Sec.  14.) 

Sec.  186.  Interfering  with  or  obstructing  an  inspector. 
— No  person  shall  interfere  with  or  obstruct  any  inspector 
or  other  duly  authorized  representative  of  the  Depart- 


Sections  187    188  and  189  89 

ment  of  Health  when  making  the  inspections  or  examina- 
tions required  by  the  Board  of  Health,  or  when  executing 
its  orders.      fS.  C.  Sec.  12.) 

Sec.  187.     False,  untruthful,  or  misleading  statements. 

No  person  shall  make  any  false,  untruthful,  or  mis- 
leading statement  in  any  application  for  a  permit  from 
the  Board  of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  15.) 

Sec.  1S8.  Affidavit  of  chemist;  presumptive  evidence 
of  facts. — Every  affidavit  duly  signed  and  acknowledged, 
of  a  chemist,  analyst,  or  other  expert,  employed  by  the 
Board  of  Health  of  the  Department  of  Health  o^  the  City 
of  New  York,  relating  to  any  analysis,  examination,  or 
investigation,  made  by  such  chemist,  analyst,  or  expert 
i.i  respect  to  any  matter,  product,  or  thing,  which  the  said 
Board  has  authority  to  examine  or  investigate,  or  may 
cause  to  be  examined  or  investigated,  shall  be  presumptive 
evidence  of  the  facts  therein  set  forth.  (S.  C.  Sec.  69a.) 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  May  6,  1920). 

Sec.  189.  Notices  net  to  be  mutilated  or  torn  down. — 
No  person  shall  interfere  with  or  obstruct,  mutilate,  or 
tear  down,  any  notice  of  the  Department  of  Health  posted 
in  or  on  any  premises  in  the  City  of  New  York.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  137.) 

ARTICLE    11. 

Midwifery  and  Care  of  Children. 

Sec.  196.     Practice  of  midwifery  regulated. 
Sec.  197.     Board  and  care  of  children  regulated. 
Sec.  19S.     Day  nurseries;   conduct  thereof  regulated. 
Sec.  199.     Vaccination;    duties  of  parents,  guardians,  and 

others. 
Sec.  200.     Phvsical  care  of  school  children. 


90  Sections  196,  197,  198,  199  and  200 

Sec.  196.  Practice  of  midwifery  regulated. — Xo  per- 
son other  than  a  duly  licensed  physician  shall  practice 
midwifery  in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit 
therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than 
in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the 
Regulations  of  said  Board  (S.  C.  Sec.  184.) 

Sec.  197.  Board  and  care  of  children  regulated. — 
No  person  other  than  a  superintendent  of  the  poor,  a 
superintendent  of  almshouses,  or  an  institution  duly  in- 
corporated for  the  purpose,  shall  receive,  board,  or  keep, 
except  under  legal  commitment,  any  nursing  child,  or  any 
child  under  the  age  of  twelve  years  who  is  not  a  relative, 
pupil,  or  ward,  or  an  apprentice,  of  such  person,  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and 
with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  191.) 

Sec.  198.  Day  nurseries;  conduct  thereof  regulated. 
— No  day  nursery  shall  be  conducted  in  the  City  of  New 
York  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  tie  terms 
of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  25.) 

Sec.  199.  Vaccination;  duties  of  parents,  guardians, 
and  others. — Every  person,  being  the  parent  or  guardian, 
or  having  the  care,  custody,  or  control,  of  an}^  minor, 
or  other  individual,  shall  (to  the  extent  of  any  means, 
power,  and  authority  of  said  parent,  guardian,  or  other 
person  that  could  properly  be  used  or  exerted  for  such 
purpose)  cause  such  minor  or  individual  to  be  so  promptly, 
frequently,  and  effectively  vaccinated  that  such  minor 
or  individual  shall  not  take,  or  be  liable  to  take  the  small- 
pox.     (S.  C.  Sec.  147.) 

Sec.  200.  Physical  care  of  school  children. — A  health 
certificate  prepared  in  accordance  with  the  Regulations 


Article  12  91 

Df  the  Department  of  Health,  and  signed  by  a  duly 
icensed  physician  authorized  to  practice  medicine  in 
;he  State  of  New  York  shall  be  furnished  by  each  pupil 
it  the  time  of  his  or  her  admission  to  a  public  or  other 
"ree  school  supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by  funds  obtained 
:rom  direct  taxation. 

If  any  such  pupil  shall  not  present  a  health  certificate, 
as  required  herein,  the  principal  or  teacher  in  charge  of 
the  school  shall  cause  a  notice  to  be  promptly  sent  to  the 
parent,  guardian,  or  other  person  having  the  care,  custody, 
or  control  of  such  pupil  to  the  effect  that,  if  the  lequired 
health  certificate  be  not  presented  within  ten  days  there- 
after, a  physical  examination  of  such  pupil  will  be  made 
by  a  medical  inspector  of  the  Department  of  Health. 

Every  principal  or  teacher,  in  charge  of  a  public  or 
other  free  school  supported  in  whole  or  in  part  by  funds 
obtained  from  direct  taxation,  shall  report  to  the  medical 
inspector  of  the  Department  of  Health  having  juris- 
diction over  the  health  of  the  pupils  in  such  school  the 
names  of  all  pupils  who  shall  not  have  furnished  such 
health  certificate  within  ten  days  following  the  date  of 
;the  sending  of  such  notice. 


ARTICLE    12. 

Miscellaneous  Provisions. 

Sec.  211.     Discharge  of  dense  smoke  prohibited. 

Sec.  212.     Nuisance  caused  by  the  discharge  or  escape 

of  cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam,  or  offensive 

or  noisome  odors  prohibited. 
Sec.  213.     Spitting  forbidden. 
Sec.  214.     Use  of  common  towels  prohibited. 
Sec.  215.     Noise  from  animals  and  birds  prohibited. 


92  Sections  211  and  212 

Sec.  216.     Smoking  in  subway  prohibited. 

Sec.  217.  Establishment  and  maintenance  of  tents  and 
camps  regulated. 

Sec.  218.  Physicians  required  to  register  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health. 

Sec.  219.     Nurses. 

Sec.  220.     Hospitals;    permit  required;    exception. 

Sec.  221.     Growth  of  poison  ivy  and  rag  weed  prohibited. 

Sec.  222.     Schools;   permits  required. 

Sec.  223.  Dispensaries;  communicable  disease;  regu- 
lations. 

Sec.  224.     Punishment  for  violation  of  Sanitary  Code. 

Sec.  225.     Heating  of  occupied  buildings. 

Sec.  226.  Persons  to  protect  nose  and  mouth  when 
coughing  or  sneezing. 

Sec.  227.  Dogs  to  be  controlled  so  as  not  to  commit 
nuisances. 

Sec.  228.     Noise  from  bells,  gongs,  etc.,  prohibited. 

Sec.  229.  Automobiles  and  other  motor  vehicles;  loud 
and  explosive  noises  prohibited. 


Sec.  211.     Discharge    of    dense    smoke    prohibited. — 

No  person  shall  cause,  suffer  or  allow  dense  smoke  to  be 
discharged  from  any  building,  vessel,  stationary  or  loco- 
motive engine  or  motor  vehicle,  place  or  premises  within 
the  City  of  New  York  or  upon  the  waters  adjacent  thereto, 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  said  City.  All  persons  partici- 
pating in  any  violation  of  this  provision,  either  as  pro- 
prietors, owners,  tenants,  managers,  superintendents, 
captains,  engineers,  firemen  or  motor  vehicle  operators 
or  otherwise,  shall  be  severally  liable  therefor.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  181.) 

Sec.  212.     Nuisance  caused  by  the  discharge  or  escape 
of  cinders,    dust,   gas,   steam,   or  offensive   or  noisome 


Section  213  93 

dors  prohibited. — The  owners,  lessees,  tenants,  occupants 
.nd  managers  of  every  building,  vessel  or  place  in  or  upon 
vhich  a  locomotive  or  stationary  engine,  furnace  or  boilers 
ire  used  shall  cause  all  ashes,  cinders,  rubbish,  dirt  and 
efusc  to  be  removed  to  some  proper  place  so  that  the  same 
hall  not.  accumulate,  nor  shall  any  person  cause,  suffer 
>r  allow  cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam,  or  offensive  or  noisome 
)dors  to  escape  or  be  discharged  from  any  such  building, 
essel  or  place,  to  the  detriment  or  annoyance  of  any 
)erson  or  persons  not  being  therein  or  thereupon  engaged. 
S.  C.  Sec.  96.) 

Sec.  213.  Spitting  forbidden. — Spitting  upon  the  side- 
walk of  any  public  street,  avenue,  park,  public  square, 
)r  place  in  the  City  of  New  York,  or  upon  the  floor  of 
iny  hall  in  any  tenement  house  which  is  used  in  common 
Dy  the  tenants  thereof,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  hall  oi 
office  in  any  hotel  or  lodging  house  which  is  used  in  com- 
mon by  the  guests  thereof,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any 
heatre,  store,  factory,  or  of  any  building  which  is  used 
n  common  by  the  public,  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  ferry - 
Doat,  railroad  car,  or  other  public  conveyance,  or  upon 
the  floor  of  any  ferry  house,  depot,  or  station,  or  upon 
the  station  platform  or  stairs  of  any  elevated  or  subway 
railroad  or  other  common  carrier,  or  upon  the  tracks  or 
roadbed,  or  into  the  street  from  the  cars,  stairs,  or  plat- 
forms of  such  elevated  or  subway  railroads,  is  forbidden. 
The  corporations  or  persons  owning  or  having  the  manage- 
ment or  control  of  any  such  building,  store,  factory, 
ferryboat,  railroad  car,  or  other  public  conveyance,  ferry- 
house,  depot  or  station,  or  station  platform  or  stairs  of  any 
such  building,  store,  factory,  ferryboat,  railroad  car,  or 
other  public  conveyance,  ferryhouse,  depot  or  station, 
or  station  platform  or  stairs  of  any  elevated  or  subway 
railroad  or  other  common  carrier,  shall  keep  permanently 


94  Sections  214  and  215 

and  conspicuously  posted  in  each  of  said  places  a  sufficient 
number  of  notices  forbidding  spitting  upon  the  floors  and 
calling  attention  to  the  provisions  of  this  section. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  lessee,  or  manager 
of  every  factory,  workroom,  store,  office,  or  place  of 
business,  in  which  ten  or  more  persons  are  employed, 
to  provide  proper  receptacles  for  expectoration.  Such 
receptacles  are  to  be  provided  in  the  proportion  of  one 
for  every  two  persons  so  employed,  and  they  are  to  be 
cleansed  and  disinfected  at  least  once  in  every  twenty 
four  hours. 

A  copy  of  the  preceding  paragraph  shall  be  kept  posted 
in  a  conspicuous  place  in  every  such  factory,  workroom, 
store,  office,  or  place  of  business.  (S.  C.  Sec.  178.) 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  October  15,  1918.): 

Sec.  214.  Use  of  common  towels  prohibited. — Noi 
person,  firm,  or  corporation  having  the  management] 
and  control  of  any  factory,  department  store  or  other 
business  establishment,  school,  hotel,  theatre,  concert 
hall,  restaurant,  cafe,  or  beer,  wine,  or  liquor  saloon, 
railroad  station,  railroad  car,  ferryhouse,  ferryboat,] 
public  lavatory,  public  wash  room,  public  comfort  station, 
or  any  other  public  place,  shall  maintain  therein  or  thereat 
any  towel  or  towels  for  use  in  common. 

The  term  "for  use  in  common"  as  employed  herein 
shall  be  construed  to  mean,  for  the  use  of  or  intended  to; 
be  used  by,  more  than  one  person. 

The  term  "corporation"  as  used  herein  shall  be  construed 
to  mean  and  include  a  municipal  corporation.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  190.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June 
30,  1915.) 

Sec.  215.     Noise  from  animals  and  birds  prohibited.- 
No  person  owning,  occupying,  or  having  charge  of  anyj 
building  or  premises,  shall  keep  or  allow  thereon  or  therein 


Sections  216,  217,  218  and  219  95 

any  animal  or  bird,  which  shall  by  noise  disturb  the  quiet 
or  repose  of  any  person  therein  or  in  the  vicinity,  to  the 
detriment  of  the  life  or  health  of  such  person.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  180.) 

Sec.  216.  Smoking  in  subway  prohibited. — Smoking 
or  carrying  any  lighted  cigar,  cigarette,  or  pipe,  in  or  on 
any  stairway,  platform,  station,  or  car,  of  any  railway 
running  underneath  the  ground  surface,  is  hereby  pro- 
hibited.     (S.  C.  Sec.  187.) 

Sec.  217.  Establishment  and  maintenance  of  tents 
and  camps  regulated. — Xo  tent  shall  be  raised  or  erected 
or  any  camp  established,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  to  be 
used  or  occupied  by  any  persons  as  a  place  for  living  or 
sleeping,  nor  shall  any  such  tent  or  camp  be  so  used  or 
occupied  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Health  or  other cvise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of 
said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  186.) 

Sec.  218.     Physicians     required     to     register    in    the 

Department   of   Health. — Every   physician   practicing  in 

the  City  of  New  York  shall  register  his  or  her  name  and 

I  address  and  every  change  of  address,  in  the  office  of  the 

t!  Bureau  of  Records  of  the  Department  of  Health.      (S.  C. 

:Sec.  160.) 

Sec.  219.  Nurses. — No  person  other  than  one  who 
shall  have  received  from  the  regents  of  the  University 
">f  the  State  of  New  York  a  certificate  of  his  or  her  qualifi- 
cations to  practice  as  a  registered  nurse  shall  assume  the 
title,  Registered  Nurse,  or  use  the  abbreviation,  R.  N., 
}r  any  other  letters,  or  words  or  figures,  to  indicate  that 
such  person  is  a  registered  nurse. 

No  person  other  than  one  who  shall  have  graduated 
after  a  course  of  training  of  not  less  than  two  years 
duration,  from  a  hospital  training  school  for  nurses,  shall 


96  Sections  220,  221  and  222 

practice  as  or  hold  himself  or  herself  out  to  be  or  be  by- 
anyone  held  out  or  represented  to  be  a  trained,  graduate 
or  certified  nurse,  or  use  any  letters,  words,  figures  or 
device  to  indicate  that  such  person  is  a  trained,  graduate 
or  certified  nurse.  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
March  30,  1915.) 

Sec.  220.  Hospitals;  permit  required;  exception. — 
No  person,  persons,  or  corporation,  other  than  those 
specifically  authorized  by  law,  shall  conduct  or  maintain 
any  public  or  private  hospital  or  institution  wherein 
human  beings  may  be  treated  or  cared  for  by  a  physician 
or  midwife,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the 
Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with 
the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of 
said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  184.) 

Sec.  221.  Growth  of  poison  ivy  and  rag  weed  pro- 
hibited.— Xo  person  owning,  occupying,  or  having 
charge  of  any  lot  or  premises  in  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  cause,  suffer,  or  allow  poison  ivy,  rag  weed,  or  other 
poisonous  weed  to  grow  therein  or  thereon  in  such  manner 
that  any  part  of  such  ivy,  rag  weed,  or  other  poisonous 
weed  shall  extend  upon,  overhang,  or  border  upon  any 
public  place,  or  allow  the  seed,  pollen,  or  other  poisonous 
particles  or  emanations  therefrom  to  be  carried  through 
the  air  into  any  public  place.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  June  30,  1915.) 

Sec.  222.  Schools;  permits  required. — No  school  for,*, 
children,  other  than  those  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Department  of  Education  of  the  City  of  New  York,  shall 
be  established  or  maintained  in  the  City  of  New  York; 
without  a  permit  therefor,  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said 
permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  For  the! 
purposes  of  this  Section,   the  term   "children"   shall  bel 


Sections  223,  224  and  225  97 

taken  to  mean  and  include  all  human  beings  under  six- 
teen (16)  years  of  age.  (The  provisions  of  this  Section 
shall  take  effect,  September  1,  1916.)  (As (  adopted  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  223.  Dispensaries ;  communicable  disease ;  regu- 
lations.— Xo  public  dispensary  where  communicable 
diseases  are  treated  or  diagnosed  shall  be  conducted  or 
maintained  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  Regu- 
lations of  the  Board  of  Health.  (As  adopted  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  224.  Punishment  for  violation  of  the  Sanitary 
Code. — Any  violation  of  the  Sanitary  Code  of  the  Board 
of  Health  of  the  Department  of  Health,  of  the  City  of 
New  York  shall  be  punished  in  the  manner  prescribed  by 
Sections  1740  and  1937  of  the  Penal  Law  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  and  Sections  1172,  1222  and  1262  of  the 
Greater  New  York  Charter.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  May  21,  1918.) 

Sec.  225.  Heating  of  occupied  buildings.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  every  person  who  shall  have  contracted  or 
undertaken,  or  shall  be  bound,  to  heat,  or  to  furnish  heat 
for  any  building  or  portion  thereof,  occupied  as  a  home 
or  place  of  residence  of  one  or  more  persons,  or  as  a  busi- 
ness establishment  where  one  or  more  persons  are  em- 
ployed, to  heat,  or  to  furnish  heat  for  every  occupied 
room  in  such  building,  or  portion  thereof,  so  that  a  mini- 
|  mum  temperature  of  sixty-eight  (6S)  degrees  Fahren- 
'  heit  may  be  maintained  therein  at  all  such  times.  Pro- 
vided, however,  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not 
apply  to  buildings,  or  portions  thereof,  used  and  occupied 
for  trades,  businesses,  or  occupations  where  high  or  low 
temperatures  are  essential  and  unavoidable. 

For  the  purpose  of  this  section,  wherever  a  building  h 
I  heated  by  means  of  a  furnace,  boiler,  or  other  apparatus 


98  Sections  226  and  227 

Under  the  control  of  the  owner,  agent,  or  lessee  of  such 
■building,  such  owner,  agent,  or  lessee,  in  the  absence 
of  a  contract  or  agreement  to  the  contrary,  shall  be 
deemed  to  have  contracted,  undertaken  or  bound  himself 
or  herself  to  furnish  heat  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section. 

The  term  "at  all  such  times"  as  used  in  this  section, 
unless  otherwise  provided  by  a  contract  or  agreement, 
shall  include  the  time  between  the  hours  of  6  A.  M. 
and  10  P.  M.,  in  a  building,  or  portion  thereof,  occupied 
as  a  home  or  place  of  residence,  and  during  the  usual 
working  hours  established  and  maintained  in  a  building, 
or  portion  thereof,  occupied  as  a  business  establishment, 
of  each  day  whenever  the  outer  or  street  temperature 
shall  fall  below  fifty  (50)  degrees  Fahrenheit. 

The  term  "contract"  as  used  in  this  section  shall  be 
taken  to  mean  and  include  a  written  or  verbal  contract. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  October  17,  1918, 
and  as  amended  December  11,  1919.) 

Sec.  226.  Persons  to  protect  nose  and  mouth  when 
coughing  or  sneezing. — In  order  to  prevent  the  convey- 
ance of  infective  material  to  others,  all  persons  shall, 
when  coughing  or  sneezing,  properly  cover  the  nose  and 
mouth  with  a  handkerchief  or  other  protective  substance. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  October  17,  1918.) 

Sec.  227.  Dogs  to  be  controlled  so  as  not  to  commit 
nuisances. — No  person  having  the  right  and  ability  tc 
prevent  shall,  knowingly,  or  carelessly  or  negligently,^; 
permit  any  dog  or  other  animal  to  commit  any  nuisance;] 
upon  any  side  walk  of  any  public  street,  avenue,  park, 
public  square,  or  place  in  the  City  of  New  York;  or  uporJ 
the  floor  of  any  hall  of  any  tenement  house  which  is  used] 
in  common  by  the  tenants  thereof;  or  upon  the  fencea 
of  any  premises,  or  the  walls  or  stairways  of  any  building 


Sections  228  and  229  99 

abutting  on  a  public  street,  avenue,  park,  public  square, 
or  place;  or  upon  the  floor  of  any  theatre,  store,  factory, 
or  any  building  which  is  used  in  common  by  the  public, 
including  all  public  rooms  or  places  therewith  connected; 
or  upon  the  floor  of  any  ferry  house,  depot,  or  station; 
or  upon  the  station  platform  or  stairs  of  any  railroad  or 
other  common  carrier;  or  upon  the  roof  of  any  tenement 
house  used  in  common  by  the  tenants  thereof;  or  upon 
the  floor  of  any  hall,  stairway,  or  office  of  any  hotel  or 
lodging  house  which  is  used  in  common  by  the  guests 
thereof;  nor  shall  any  such  person  omit  to  do  any  reason- 
able and  proper  act,  or  take  any  reasonable  and  proper 
precaution,  to  prevent  any  such  dog  or  other  animal  from 
committing  such  a  nuisance  in,  on,  or  upon,  any  of  the 
places  or  premises  herein  specified.  (As  adopted  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  November  4,  1918.) 

Sec.  228.  Noise  from  bells,  gongs,  etc.,  prohibited. — 
No  person  shall  cause,  suffer  or  allow  to  be  attached  to, 
or  maintained  in  or  upon  any  building  or  premises  any 
bell  or  gong,  which  shall  by  noise  disturb  the  quiet  or 
repose  of  persons  in  the  vicinity  thereof,  to  the  detriment 
of  the  repose  or  health  of  such  person.  All  persons  par- 
ticipating in  the  violation  of  this  provision,  either  as  pro- 
prietors, owners,  tenants,  managers  or  superintendent  of 
such  building  or  premises,  or  licensees  or  licensors  of  such 
electric  bell  or  gong,  or  otherwise,  shall  be  liable  therefor. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  August  20,  1919.) 

Sec.  229.  Automobiles  and  other  motor  vehicles; 
loud  and  explosive  noises  prohibited. — Every  auto- 
mobile or  other  vehicle  equipped  with  a  gasoline  or  other 
internal  combustion  engine  in  which  a  gas  is  generated 
or  used  for  the  purpose  of  propulsion,  shall  be  constructed 
so  that  the  exhaust  from  such  engine  is  made  to  discharge 
into  a  muffler  or  other  device  which  will  prevent  loud  or 


100  Article  13 

explosive  noises;  and  no  person  having  the  management 
and  control  of  any  such  automobile  or  vehicle,  or  operating 
the  engine  thereof,  shall  cause,  permit,  suffer  or  allow 
the  exhaust  from  such  engine  to  discharge  into  the  open 
air,  or  otherwise  than  into  a  muffler  or  other  device  which 
would  prevent  loud  or  explosive  noises.  (As  adopted  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  December  17,  1919.) 


ARTICLE   13. 

Offensive  Materials. 

Sec.  231.  Offensive  water  or  other  liquid  or  substance; 
not  permitted  on  premises  or  grounds. 

Sec.  232.  Offensive  matter  or  substances;  accumula- 
tions thereof  not  to  be  disturbed  in  certain 
peiiods  of  year;    permit  required. 

Sec.  233.  Stinking,  noxious  liquids;  not  to  fall  into  or 
upon  any  public  place. 

Sec.  234.  Blood,  butcher's  offal  or  garbage,  dead  ani- 
mals, and  putrid  or  stinking  animal  or 
vegetable  matter;    disposal  restricted. 

Sec.  235.  Contents  of  vaults,  privies,  cisterns,  cess- 
pools, and  sinks;  creation  of  nuisances 
prohibited. 

Sec.  236.  Disinfection  and  removal  of  contents  of  sinks, 
privies,  vaults,  and  all  other  noxious 
substances. 

Sec.  237.  Vaults,  sinks,  privies,  and  cesspools;  use 
thereof  limited. 

Sez.  238.  Transportation  of  garbage  on  boats  and  scows 
to  Barren  Island  regulated. 

Sec.  239.  Transportation  of  offal  and  butcher's  refuse 
regulated. 


Article  13  101 

Sec.  240.  Transportation  of  manure,  swill,  ashes,  gar- 
bage, and  offal  regulated. 

Sec.  241.  Collection  and  transportation  of  bones,  refuse, 
and  offensive  materials  regulated. 

Sec.  2-42.  Accumulations  of  manure,  offal,  garbage, 
and  other  offensive  and  nauseous  sub- 
stances;   retention  and  disposal  regulated. 

Sec.  243.  Removal  of  dead  or  diseased  animals  and  filthy, 
offensive,  and  noxious  substances  regulated. 

Sec.  244.  Carts,  vehicles,  and  implements  to  be  kept  in 
an  inoffensive  and  sanitary  condition;  use 
of  same  regulated. 

Sec.  245.  Ships,  boats,  and  other  vessels;  not  allowed 
at  dock  or  pier  unless  permitted. 

Sec.  246.  The  use  of  docks,  piers,  and  bulkheads 
regulated. 

Sec.  247.  Refuse  from  oyster-houses,  oyster-saloons, 
and  other  premises;  method  of  disposal 
of  refuse  regulated;    nuisances  prohibited. 

Sec.  248.  Ashes,  garbage,  and  liquid  substances;  sepa- 
rate receptacles  to  be  provided;  duties 
of  owners,  lessees,  and  agents;  removal; 
special  provisions  applicable  to  Borough 
of  Richmond. 

Sec.  249.  Receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage,  and  liquid 
substances  not  to  be-  interfered  with  or 
contents  disturbed. 

Sec.  250.  Ashes,  garbage,  and  rubbish;  method  of 
removal  regulated. 

Sec.^251.  Vacant  lots;  accumulation  of  water  thereon 
prohibited;  fence  to  be  provided,  if  sunken ; 
throwing  and  depositing  offensive  material 
into  such  lots  prohibited. 


102  Sections  231,  232  and  233 

Sec.  252.  Filling  in  land;  offensive  and  unwholesome 
materials  not  to  be  used;  the  use  of  street 
sweeping  for  filling  in  purposes  forbidden. 

Sec.  253.  Lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers, 
like  substances,  and  other  materials  not 
to  be  sieved,  agitated,  or  exposed. 


Sec.  231.  Offensive  water  or  other  liquid  or  sub- 
stance;    not    permitted    on   premises    or   grounds. — Xo 

person  or  corporation  shall  permit  or  have  any  offensive 
water  or  other  liquid  or  substance  on  his,  her,  or  its 
premises  or  grounds  to  the  prejudice  of  life  or  health, 
whether  for  use  in  any  trade  or  otherwise.  (S.  C.  Sec. 
88.) 

Sec.  232.  Offensive  matter  or  substances;  accumu- 
lations thereof  not  to  be  disturbed  in  certain  periods  of 
year;  permit  required. — No  ground  or  material  filled 
with  or  containing  offensive  matter  or  substance,  or  that 
will  emit  or  allow  to  arise  through  or  from  the  same  any 
offensive  smell  or  deleterious  exhalation,  shall  (adjacent 
to  or  within  the  built-up  portion  of  the  City  of  New  York) 
be  opened  or  turned  up,  nor  shall  the  surface  thereof  be 
removed,  between  the  first  day  of  May  and  the  first  day 
of  October  of  any  year,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations 
of  said  Board.      (S.-C.  Sec.  99.) 

Sec.  233.  Stinking,  noxious  liquids;  not  to  fall  into 
or  upon  any  public  place. — No  swill,  brine,  urine  of  ani- 
mals, or  other  offensive  animal  matter,  or  any  stinking 
or  noxious  liquid,  or  other  filthy  matter  of  any  kind,  shall 
by  any  person  be  allowed  to  run  or  fall  into  or  upon  any 
street  or  public  place,  or  be  taken  or  put  therein.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  102.) 


Sections  234,  235  and  236  103 

Sec.  234.  Blood,  butcher's  offal  or  garbage,  dead 
animals,  and  putrid  or  stinking  animal  or  vegetable 
matter;  disposal  restricted. — Xo  blood,  butcher's  offal 
or  garbage,  or  any  dead  animal,  or  any  putrid  or  stinking 
animal  or  vegetable  matter,  shall  be  thrown  by  any  person 
or  allowed  to  go  into  any  street,  place,  sewer,  or  receiving 
basin,  any  river  or  standing  or  running  water  or  excava- 
tion, or  any  ground  or  premises  in  the  built-up  portions 
of  the  City.      (S.  C.  Sec.  103.) 

Sec.  235.  Contents  of  vaults,  privies,  cisterns,  cess- 
pools, and  sinks;  creation  of  nuisances  prohibited. — No 
person  shall  deposit,  or  allow  to  run  or  go  into  or  remain 
in  any  street  or  other  public  place  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
Dr  deposit,  or  allow  to  run  or  go  (except  through  the  proper 
underground  sewers)  into  any  river  or  other  body  of 
water  within  the  territorial  limits  of  the  said  City,  the 
contents  (or  any  part  thereof)  of  any  vault,  privy,  cistern, 
:esspool,  or  sink;  nor  shall  any  owner,  tenant,  or  occu- 
pant, of  any  building  to  which  any  vault,  sink,  privy, 
or  cesspool  shall  pertain  or  be  attached,  permit  the  con- 
tents, or  any  part  thereof,  to  flow  therefrom  or  to  rise 
within  two  feet  of  any  part  of  the  top  thereof,  or  said 
contents  to  become  offensive;  nor  shall  any  vault,  privy, 
cistern,  cesspool,  or  sink  be  filled  or  covered  with  dirt 
ontil  it  shall  have  been  emptied  of  its  filthy  contents. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  104.) 

Sec.  236.  Disinfection  and  removal  of  contents  of 
sinks,  privies,  vaults,  and  all  other  noxious  substances. — 
All  putrid  or  offensive  matter,  all  night  soil,  the  contents 
of  all  sinks,  privies,  vaults,  and  cesspools,  and  all  noxious 
substances,  shall,  before  their  removal  or  exposure,  be 
disinfected  and  rendered  inoffensive  by  the  owner,  lessee, 
Dr  occupant  of  the  premises  where  the  same  may  be,  or 
Dy  the  person  or  contractor  who  removes  or  is  about  to 


104  Sections  237    238,  239  and  240 

remove  the  same;  and  no  part  of  the  contents  of  any 
vault,  privy,  sink,  or  cesspool  shall  be  removed  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and 
with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  122.) 

Sec.  237.  Vaults,  sinks,  privies,  and  cesspools;  use 
thereof  limited. — No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit  into 
any  vault,  sink,  privy,  or  cesspool,  any  offal,  ashes,  meat, 
fish,  garbage,  or  other  substance  except  that  of  which 
any  such  place  is  the  appropriate  receptacle.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  105.) 

Sec.  238.  Transportation  of  garbage  on  boats  and 
scows  to  Barren  Island  regulated. — Xo  boat,  scow,  or 
other  receptacle,  used  in  transporting  garbage  to  Barren 
Island  or  the  place  of  disposal  shall  be  permitted  to 
remain  moored  or  be  at  any  dock,  wharf,  or  place,  within 
the  limits  of  the  City  of  Xew  York,  for  a  longer  period 
than  twenty-four  hours  from  the  time  when  garbage  is 
first  delivered  or  placed  thereon.  Garbage  shall  be  re- 
ceived on  and  transported  in  such  boat,  scow,  or  other 
receptacle  in  a  manner  approved  by  the  Board  of  Health 
and  not  otherwise.      (S.  C.  Sec.  123.) 

Sec.  239.  Transportation  of  offal  and  butcher's  refuse 
regulated. — No  offal  or  butcher's  refuse  or  garbage  shall 
be  conveyed  through  any  street  or  avenue  or  over  any 
ferry  in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  therefor 
issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accord- 
ance with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regu- 
lations of  said  Board. 

No  offal  or  butcher's  refuse  shall  be  brought  into  the 
City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  87.) 

Sec.  240.  Transportation  of  manure,  swill,  ashes, 
garbage,  and  offal  regulated. — No  person  shall  engage 
in    the    business    of    transporting    manure,    swill,    ashes, 


Sections  241  and  242  105 

garbage,  offal,  or  any  offensive  or  noxious  substance,  or 
drive  any  cart  for  such  purpose,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health 
or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said 
permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  119.) 

Sec.  241.  Collection  and  transportation  of  bones, 
refuse,  and  offensive  materials  regulated. — Xo  person 
shall  gather,  collect,  accumulate,  store,  expose,  carry, 
or  transport  in  any  manner  through  any  street  or  public 
place,  or  into  any  building  or  cellar,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  any  bones,  refuse,  or  offensive  material  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and 
with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  101.) 

Sec.  242.  Accumulations  of  manure,  offal,  garbage, 
and  other  offensive  and  nauseous  substances;  retention 
and  disposal  regulated. — Xo  pile,  deposit,  or  accumula- 
tion of  manure,  offal,  dirt,  or  garbage,  or  any  offensive  or 
nauseous  substance,  shall  be  made  within  the  built-up 
portions  of  the  City  of  New  York,  or  on  or  upon 
the  piers,  docks,  or  balkheads  adjacent  thereto,  or  on 
or  upon  any  vessel,  boat,  or  scow,  lying  at  such  pier, 
wharf,  or  bulkhead;  nor  shall  such  pile,  deposit,  or  accu- 
mulation be  made  anywhere  in  said  City  within  three 
hundred  feet  of  any  church  or  place  of  worship,  or  in- 
habited dwelling,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the 
Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with 
the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of 
said  Board;  and  no  person  shall  contribute  to  the  making 
of  any  such  pile,  deposit,  or  accumulation  without  such 
a  permit  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  such  permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said  Board;  nor 
shall  any  car  loaded  with  or  having  in  or  on  it  any  such 


106  Section  243 

substance  or  substances  be  allowed  to  remain  or  stand 
on  any  railroad  track,  street,  or  highway,  within  three 
hundred  feet  of  any  inhabited  dwelling,  or  elsewhere  in 
said  City,  nor  shall  any  vessel,  boat,  scow,  or  float,  loaded 
with  any  such  substance  or  substances  be  allowed  to  re- 
main at  any  pier,  dock,  or  bulkhead  in  said  City,  without  a 
permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board;  and  no  manure, 
garbage,  or  other  material  that  is  liaole  to  emit  an  offen- 
sive exhalation  shall,  in  or  adjacent  to  the  built-up  por- 
tions of  the  City  of  New  York,  be  turned  or  stirred,  except 
in  its  removal,  in  such  a  way  as  to  increase  such  exhala- 
tions by  reason  thereof;  nor  shall  any  straw,  hay,  or  other 
substance,  which  has  been  used  as  bedding  for  animals, 
be  placed  or  dried  upon  any  street  or  sidewalk,  or  roof 
of  any  building;  nor  shall  any  such  straw,  ha}',  or  other 
substance,  or  the  contents  of  any  mattress  or  bed,  be 
deposited  or  burnt  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by 
the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of 
said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  111.) 

Sec.  243.  Removal  of  dead  or  diseased  animals  and 
filthy,  offensive,  and  noxious  substances  regulated. — 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  (his  agents  and  em- 
ployees) who  has  contracted  or  undertaken  to  remove 
any  diseased  or  dead  animal,  offal,  rubbish,  garbage,' 
dirt,  street-sweepings,  night-soil,  or  other  filthy,  offen- 
sive, or  noxious  substance,  or  is  engaged  in  any  such 
removal,  or  in  loading  or  unloading  any  such  substance,! 
to  do  the  same  with,  dispatch,  and,  in  every  particular,; 
in  as  cleanly  and  inoffensive  a  manner,  and  with  as  little] 
danger  and  prejudice  to  life  and  health,  as  possible,  and: 
no  matter  or  material  shall  lie  piled  up,  or  partially  raked 


Sections  244,  245  and  246  107 

together,  in  any  street  or  place,  before  the  removal  thereof, 
more  than  a  reasonable  time,  or  for  more  than  four  hours, 
under  any  circumstances,  in  the  daytime.     (S.  C.  .Sec.  114.) 

Sec.  244.  Carts,  vehicles,  and  implements  to  be  kept 
in  an  inoffensive  and  sanitary  condition;  use  of  same 
regulated. — Xo  cart  or  other  vehicle  used  for  carrying  or 
containing,  any  manure,  swill,  garbage,  offal,  or  rub- 
bish, or  other  nauseous  or  offensive  substance,  or  the 
contents  of  any  privy,  vault,  cesspool,  or  sink,  shall, 
without  necessity  therefor,  be  allowed  to  stand  or  remain 
before  or  near  any  building,  place  of  business,  or  other 
premises,  where  any  person  may  be;  nor  shall  tne  loading 
or  unloading  of  any  such  cart  or  vehicle  or  the  conveying 
thereof  through  any  street,  place,  or  premises  consume 
an  unreasonable  period  of  time.  Such  carts,  vehicles, 
and  all  implements  used  in  connection  therewith  must 
be  kept  in  an  inoffensive  and  sanitary  condition,  and, 
when  not  in  use,  shall  be  stored  and  kept  in  some  place 
where  no  needless  offense  shall  be  given  to  any  of  the 
people  of  the  City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  120.) 

Sec.  245.  Ships,  boats,  and  other  vessels;  not  al- 
lowed at  dock  or  pier  unless  permitted. — No  ship,  boat, 
or  other  vessel  shall  be  taken  or  allowed  by  any  person 
to  come  into,  or  lay  at  or  within,  any  dock,  pier,  bulk- 
head, or  slip,  for  the  purpose  of  the  shipment  or  removal 
of  any  offal,  garbage,  rubbish,  blood,  or  offensive  animal 
or  vegetable  matter,  dirt,  or  dead  animals,  or  for  the  use 
of  any  contractor  for  the  removal  of  any  of  the  foregoing 
substances,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board 
of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  115.) 

Sec.  246.  The  use  of  docks,  piers,  and  bulkheads 
regulated. — Xo  person  shall  obstruct,  delay,  or  interfere 


108  Sections  247  and  248 

with  the  proper  and  ready  use,  for  the  purposes  for  which 
they  may  be  and  should  be  set  apart  and  devoted,  of  any 
dock,  pier,  or  bulkhead  by  any  contractor  or  person  en- 
gaged in  removing  any  offal,  garbage,  rubbish,  dirt, 
dead  animal,  night  soil,  or  other  like  substances,  or  with 
the  proper  performance  of  such  contracts.  (S.  C.  Sec. 
113.) 

Sec.  247.  Refuse  from  oyster-houses,  oyster-saloons, 
and  other  premises;  method  of  disposal  of  refuse  regu- 
lated; nuisances  prohibited. — Every  proprietor,  lessee, 
tenant,  and  occupant  of  any  oyster-house,  oyster-saloon, 
or  other  premises  where  an}?-  oysters,  clams,  lobsters,  or 
shell  or  other  fish  are  consumed,  used,  or  sold,  or  where 
any  of  the  refuse  matter,  offal,  or  shells  thereof  accumu- 
late shall  daily  cause  all  such  shells,  offal,  and  refuse  matter 
to  be  removed  therefrom  to  some  proper  place,  and  shall 
keep  such  house,  saloon,  or  premises  at  all  times  free  from 
any  offensive  smells  or  accumulations.      (S.  C.  Sec.  112.) 

Sec.  248.  Ashes,  garbage,  and  liquid  substances; 
separate  receptacles  to  be  provided;  duties  of  owners, 
lessees,  and  agents;  removal;  special  provisions  ap- 
plicable to  Borough  of  Richmond. — It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  every  owner,  tenant,  lessee,  occupant,  or  person  in 
charge  of  any  and  every  building  in  the  built-up  and 
generally  built-up  parts  of  the  City  of  New  York,  from 
which  the  City  of  New  York  removes  ashes,  garbage, 
rubbish,  or  refuse,  to  provide  or  cause  to  be  provided, 
forthwith,  and  at  all  times  thereafter  to  keep  and  provide 
or  cause  to  be  kept  and"  provided,  within  and  for  the 
exclusive  use  of  such  building,  or  the  part  thereof  to  which 
reference  is  hereinafter  made,  separate  receptacles,  made 
of  metal,  for  holding,  respectively,  without  leakage,  all 
ashes,  garbage,  and  liquid  waste  substances,  that  may 
accumulate,  during  sixty  consecutive  hours,  in  or  through 


Section  248  109 

the  use  of  sucn  building,  01  the  part  thereof  of  which  such 
person  may  be  the  owner,  tenant,  lessee,  occupant,  or 
in  charge. 

And  it  snail  b^  the  duty  of  every  owner,  tenant,  lessee, 
occupant,  or  person  in  charge  of  any  such  building  to 
cause  to  be  separated  and  put  into  their  respective  re- 
ceptacles all  such  materials  and  substances;  but  no  such 
receptacle  shall  be  filled  to  a  greater  height  than  a  line 
within  such  receptacle  four  inches  from  the  top  thereof, 
nor  shall  any  such  receptacle,  when  so  filled,  contain 
more  than  two  cubic  feet  of  material,  nor  weigh  more 
than  one  hundred  pounds;  and  every  such  receptacle 
shall  be  kept,  at  all  times,  in  a  condition  satisfactory  to  the 
Street  Cleaning  Department  or  the  Department  of  Health. 

And  all  such  receptacles  shall  be  kept  within  the  build- 
ing, or  in  the  rear  premises  therewith  connected,  until 
the  time  for  the  removal  of  such  ashes,  garbage,  or  liquid 
waste  substances,  when  such  receptacles  shall  be  placed 
in  the  area,  or  within  the  fence  or  other  enclosure,  in 
front  of  such  building,  or,  if  there  be  no  area,  or  fence  or 
other  enclosure,  such  receptacles  shall  be  placed  on  the 
sidewalk,  close  to  such  building;  all  such  receptacles 
shall  remain  so  placed  until  the  contents  thereof  shall 
have  been  removed  by  the  Street  Cleaning  Department, 
immediately  after  which,  such  receptacles  shall  be  re- 
turned to  such  building,  or  to  the  rear  premises  there- 
with connected;  and  every  receptacle  containing  garbage 
or  liquid  waste  substance,  when  outside  of  such  building 
shall  be  kept,  at  all  times,  covered  with  a  tight  fitting 
cover. 

And  newspapers,  wrapping-paper,  and  all  other  light 
refuse  and  rubbish  likely  to  be  blown  or  scattered  about 
the  streets,  shall  be  securely  bundled,  tied,  or  packed, 
before  being  placed  for  removal;    and  such  newspapers, 


110  Section  248 

wrapping-paper,  and  other  light  refuse  and  rubbish,  as 
well  as  all  other  refuse  and  rubbish,  shall  be  kept  within 
the  building,  or  in  the  rear  premises  therewith  connected, 
until  the  time  for  the  removal  thereof,  when  they  shall 
be  placed  as  the  receptacles  hereinbefore -mentioned  are 
required,  by  the  provisions  of  this  section,  to  be  placed. 

No  such  receptacle  and  no  such  refuse  or  rubbish 
shall,  however,  be  so  placed  as  to  constitute  or  con- 
tribute to  the  creation  of  a  nuisance;  and  no  yard 
sweepings,  hedge  cuttings,  grass,  leaves,  earth,  stone, 
bricks,  or  business  waste  shall  be  mixed  with  household 
waste. 

Accumulations  of  household  ashes,  garbage,  refuse 
or  rubbish  resulting  from  the  failure  to  take  advantage 
of  the  regular  collection  service  shall  be  removed  at  the 
expense  of  the  person  or  persons  concerned. 

It  shall,  however,  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  tenant, 
lessee,  occupant,  or  person  in  charge  of  every  building 
in  the  built-up  and  generally  built-up  parts  of  the  City 
of  New  York  not  included  within  the  foregoing  provi- 
sions of  this  section  to  observe  the  requirements  of  the 
said  provisions,  except  that  such  owner,  tenant,  lessee, 
occupant,  or  person  shall  cause  all  ashes,  garbage,  liquid 
waste,  rubbish,  and  refuse  to  be  daily  removed  therefrom. 

The  foregoing  provisions  shall  apply  to  the  built-up 
and  generally  built-up  parts  of  the  City  of  New  York 
except  as  follows: 

In  the  Borough  of  Richmond,  ashes  from  house  furnaces 
shall  be  kept  apart  from  the  remainder  of  the  household 
waste  and  be  kept  in  a  receptacle,  or  in  receptacles,  made 
of  metal,  which  shall  be  used  only  for  holding  such  ashes; 
and  the  remainder  of  the  household  waste,  including 
garbage,  kitchen  ashes,  sweepings,  soiled  paper,  refuse, 
and  rubbish,  shall  be  placed  in  another  metal  receptacle, 


Sections  249,  250  and  251  111 


or  in  other  metal  receptacles,  which,  when  outside  of  a 
building,  shall  be  kept  covered  with  a  tight  fitting  cover. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  108.) 

Sec.  249.  Receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage,  and  liquid 
substances  not  to  be  interfered  with  or  contents  dis- 
turbed.— Xo  person,  not  for  that  purpose  authorized, 
shall  interfere  with  the  receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage, 
or  liquid  substances,  as  provided  in  accordance  with 
Section  24S  of  the  Sanitary  Code,  or  with  the  contents 
thereof;  nor  shall  any  person  in  any  way  handle  or  dis- 
turb such  contents.     (S.  C.  Sec.  109.) 

Sec.  250.  Ashes,  garbage,  and  rubbish;  method  of 
removal  regulated. — All  occupants  so  preferring  may 
deliver  their  ashes,  garbage,  refuse,  and  rubbish  directly 
to  the  proper  carts,  to  be  taken  away  at  any  hour  of  the 
day  when  said  carts  may  be  present,  and  said  carts  may 
take  such  articles  and  substances  at  any  such  hour; 
provided  that  such  garbage,  refuse,  or  rubbish  be  not 
highly  filthy  or  offensive.  In  the  latter  case,  the  same 
shall  not  be  so  delivered  or  received  during  the  period 
beginning  at  seven  o'clock  a.  m.,  of  any  day  and  ending  at 
ten  o'clock  of  the  evening  of  the  same  day.    (S.C.  Sec.  110.) 

Sec.  251.  Vacant  lots;  accumulation  of  water  thereon 
prohibited;  fence  to  be  provided,  if  sunken;  throwing 
and  depositing  offensive  material  into  such  lots  pro- 
hibited.— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  lessee, 
contractor,  or  other  person  having  the  management  or 
control  of  any  lot  or  parcel  of  land  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
to  keep  and  preserve  the  same,  at  all  times,  clean  and 
inoffensive,  and  to  prevent  the  gathering  or  collecting 
of  water  thereon;  and  to  provide  and  maintain  around 
or  in  front  of  any  lot  which  is  sunken,  excavated,  or  below 
the  grade  of  the  sidewalk  adjacent  thi  proper  fence 

to  protect  persons  from  falling  into  such  lot 


112  Sections  252  axd  253 

No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit  into  or  upon  any 
lot  any  garbage,  refuse,  or  other  offensive  material. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  116.) 

Sec.  252.  Filling  in  land;  offensive  and  unwholesome 
materials  not  to  be  used;  the  use  of  street  sweepings 
for  filling-in  purposes  forbidden. — No  person  shall  fill 
in  any  land  under  or  above  water  within  the  limits  of 
the  City  of  New  York,  or  any  of  the  islands  situated 
within  such  limits,  with  garbage,  dead  animals  or  any 
parts  thereof,  decaying  matter,  or  any  offensive  and 
unwholesome  material,  or  with  dirt,  ashes,  or  other 
refuse,  when  mixed  with  such  garbage,  dead  animals 
or  parts  thereof,  decaying  matter  or  offensive  and  un- 
wholesome material. 

No  street  sweepings  shall  be  deposited  or  used  to 
fill  up  or  raise  the  surface  or  level  of  any  lot,  grounds, 
dock,  wharf,  or  pier  in  or  adjacent  to  the  built-up 
portions  of  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit 
therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than 
in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with 
the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  98.) 

Sec.  253.  Lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers, 
and  like  substances,  and  other  materials  not  to  be  sieved, 
agitated,  or  exposed. — No  lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand, 
hair,  feathers,  or  other  substance  that  is  in  a  similar 
manner  liable  to  be  blown  by  the  wind,  shall  be  sieved, 
agitated,  or  exposed,  nor  shall  any  mat,  carpet,  or  cloth 
be  shaken  or  beaten,  nor  shall  any  cloth,  yarn,  garment, 
material,  or  substance  be  scoured,  cleaned,  or  hung,  nor 
shall  any  rags,  damaged  merchandise,  barrels,  boxes,  or 
broken  bales  of  merchandise  or  goods,  oe  placed,  kept, 
or  exposed  in  any  place  where  they  or  particles  therefrom 
will  pass  into  any  street  or  public  place,  or  into  any 
occupied  premises;    nor  shall  any  usual  or  any  reasonable 


Article  14  113 

precautions  be  omitted  by  any  person  to  prevent  frag- 
ments or  other  substances  from  falling,  to  the  detri- 
ment or  peril  of  life  or  health,  or  dust  or  light  material 
flying  into  any  street,  place,  or  building,  from  any  build- 
ing or  erection,  while  the  same  is  being  altered,  repaired, 
or  demolished,  or  otherwise.      (S.  C.  Sec.  118.) 


ARTICLE    14. 
Plumbing,  Drainage  and  Sewerage. 

Drainage;  duties  of  owners,  lessees,  tenants, 
and  occupants  of  buildings  and  premises. 

Drainage  of  marsh  land. 

Sewers;  to  be  adequately  flushed;  duties 
of  boards,  departments,  officers,  and  per- 
sons. 

Sewage,  drainage,  factory  refuse,  and  foul 
offensive  liquid  or  other  material;  dis- 
posal thereof  regulated  and  restricted. 

Change  in  drainage,  sewerage,  and  sewer 
connection  affecting  other  premises  regu- 
lated. 

Drains,  soil-pipes,  passages,  or  connections 
between  sewers  and  buildings;  to  be 
adequate. 

Plumbing;  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and 
repair. 

Plumbing  fixtures;    to  be  separately  trapped. 

Drain,  soil,  and  waste  pipes;  joints  and 
connections. 

Drain  pipes  from  refrigerators;  to  discharge 
into  open  sink;  discharge  from  overflow 
pipe  regulated. 


114  Sections  271  and  272 

Sec.  281.  Waste,  soil,  and  vent  pipes;  to  be  constructed 
and  located  so  as  not  to  contribute  to  the 
creation  of  a  nuisance. 

Sec.  282.     Ventilation  of  sewers  and  plumbing. 

Sec.  283.  Rain  water  leaders  and  gutters;  use  re- 
stricted;  to  be  sound,  tight,  and  adequate. 

Sec.  284.     Privies  and  water  closets;   maintenance. 

Sec.  285.  Temporary  privies;  to  be  provided  during 
construction  work. 

Sec.  286.  Privies  to  be  screened  to  prevent  access  of 
flies. 

Sec.  287.     Privy  vaults  and  cesspools;    construction. 


Sec.  271.  Drainage;  duties  of  owners,  lessees,  ten- 
ants, and  occupants  of  buildings  and  premises. — No 
person  being  owner,  lessee,  tenant,  or  occupant  of  any 
building  or  premises,  shall  allow  any  water  or  other 
liquid  to  run  from  or  out  of  such  building  or  premises 
upon  or  across  any  sidewalk  or  curbstone,  and  no  such 
substance  shall  be  allowed  to  pass  into  any  street  except 
by  means  of  a  passage  constructed  under  or  through, 
which  passage  must  be  kept  at  all  times  adequate  and  in 
repair;  and  no  water  or  other  liquid,  or  ice  therefrom, 
shall  be  allowed  to  gather  or  remain  on  the  upper  surface 
of  such  curb,  flag-stone,  or  passage;  nor  shall  any  such 
person  allow  any  accumulation  of  such  water  or  liquid, 
or  the  ice  therefrom,  upcn  any  street  or  place,  but  shall  i 
at  all  times  cause  the  same  to  be  removed  or  to  pass  along  | 
the  gutter  or  some  proper  passage  to  one  of  the  rivers  or 
into  a  sewer.      (S.  C.  Sec.  40.) 

Sec.  272.  Drainage  of  marsh  land. — It  shall  be  the! 
duty  of  every  owner,  lessee,  agent,  contractor,  or  other 
person  having  the  management  or  control  of  any  salt 
marsh    land,    inland     swamp,    sunken    lot,    abandoned) 


Sections  273,  274  and  275  115 

excavation,  or  any  other  place  wherein  or  whereon  either 
salt  or  fresh  water  becomes  stagnant  and  in  which  said 
stagnant  water  mosquitoes  are  bred  and  developed,  to 
fill  in  or  drain  the  same,  or  employ  such  other  methods 
as  v/ill  prevent  at  all  times  the  breeding  of  mosquitoes 
in  or  on  such  places. 

Sec.  273.  Sewers;  to  be  adequately  flushed;  duties 
of  boards,  departments,  officers,  and  persons. — It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  all  boards,  departments,  officers,  and  per- 
sons having  power  and  authority  so  to  do  or  required 
(and  to  the  extent  thereof)  to  cause  sufficient  water  to 
be  used,  and  other  adequate  means  to  be  taken,  so  that 
whatever  substances  may  enter  any  sewer  shall  pass 
speedily  along  and  from  the  same  and  sufficiently  far 
into  some  water  or  proper  reservoir,  in  order  that  no 
accumulations  shall  take  place  therein,  and  no  exhalations 
proceed  therefrom,  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or 
health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  28.) 

Sec.  274.  Sewage,  drainage,  factory  refuse,  and  foul 
or  offensive  liquid  or  other  material;  disposcl  thereof 
regulated  and  restricted. — Xo  person,  persons,  company, 
or  corporation  shall  cause,  permit,  or  allow  any  sewage, 
drainage,  factory  refuse,  or  any  foul  or  offensive  liquid 
or  other  material  to  flow,  leak,  escape,  or  be  emptied  or 
discharged,  into  the  waters  of  any  river,  stream,  canal, 
harbor,  bay,  or  estuary,  or  into  the  sea,  within  the  limits 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  excepting  under  low-water 
mark,  and  in  euch  manner  and  under  such  conditions  that 
no  nuisance  can  or  shall  be  caused  thereby  or  as  a  result 
thereof.      (S.  C.  Sec.  3S.) 

Sec.  275.  Change  in  drainage,  sewerage,  and  sewer 
connection  affecting  other  premises  regulated. — No 
change  shall  be  made  in  the  drainage,  sewerage,  or  the 
sewer   connection   of   any  house   or   premises,    involving 


116  Sections  276,  277  and  278 

changes  in  the  drainage,  sewerage,  or  sewer  connection, 
of  any  other  house  or  premises,  unless  at  least  30  days' 
notice  thereof  in  writing  shall  have  been  previously- 
given  to  this  Department,  and  to  the  owner  or  occupant 
of  the  premises  affected  by  such  change.       (S.  C.  Sec.  27.)' 

Sec.  276.  Drains,  soil-pipes,  passages,  or  connec- 
tions between  sewers  and  buildings;  to  be  adequate. — 
Every  person  using,  making,  or  having  any  drain,  soil- 
pipe,  passage,  or  connection  between  any  sewer  (or  any 
river  or  other  body  of  water)  and  any  ground,  building,, 
erection,  or  place  of  business,  every  owner  or  tenant  of 
any  such  ground,  building,  or  erection  or  place  of  business,. 
and  every  person,  board,  department,  or  officer  occupying 
or  interested  in,  any  such  ground,  building,  erection,  or 
place  of  business,  shall,  to  the  extent  of  the  right  and 
authority  of  each,  cause  and  require  such  drain,  soil-pipe, 
passage,  or  connection  to  be  at  all  times  adequate  for  the 
purpose  of  conveying  and  allowing,  freely  and  entirely, 
to  pass  whatever  enters  or  should  enter  the  same.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  27.) 

Sec.  277.  Plumbing;  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and 
repair. — All  house  drains,  house  sewers,  waste  and  soil- 
pipes,  traps,  and  water  and  gas  pipes,  in  any  building  or 
premises  shall  at  all  times  be  kept  in  good  order  and  re- 
pair so  that  no  gases  or  odors  shall  escape  therefrom  and 
so  that  the  same  shall  not  leak;  and  all  vent  pipes  shall 
be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair  and  free  from  obstruc- 
tions.     (S.  C.  Sec.  32.) 

Sec.  278.  Plumbing  fixtures;  to  be  separately  trapped. 
Every  water-closet,  urinal,  sink,  basin,  wash-tray,  and 
bath,  and  every  tub  or  set  of  tubs  and  rrydrant  waste 
pipe,  must  be  separately  and  effectively  trapped,  except ; 
where  a  sink  and  wash  tubs  immediately  adjoin  each 
other,  in  which  case  the  waste-pipe  from  the  tubs  may  be 


Sections  279,  280  and  281  117 

connected  with  the  inlet  side  of  the  sink  trap.  Traps 
must  be  placed  as  near  the  fixtures  as  practicable,  and  in 
no  case  shall  a  trap  he  more  than  two  feet  from  the  fixture. 
In  no  case  shall  the  waste  from  a  bath  tub  or  other  fixture 
be  connected  with  a  water-closet  trap,  nor  shall  any  trap 
vent  pipe  be  used  as  a  waste  or  soil  pipe.       (S.  C.  Sec.  33.) 

Sec.  279.  Drain,  soil,  and  waste  pipes;  joints  and 
connections. — All  joints  in  cast  iron  drain,  soil,  and 
waste  pipes  must  be  filled  with  oakum  and  lead  and  be 
hand  caulked  so  as  to  make  them  gas-tight.  All  con- 
nections of  lead  witn  iron  pipes  must  be  made  with  a 
brass  sleeve  or  ferrule  of  the  same  size  as  the  lead  pipe, 
put  into  the  hub  of  the  branch  of  the  iron  pipe,  and 
caulked  with  lead;  and  the  lead  pipe  must  be  attached 
to  the  sleeve  or  ferrule  by  a  wiped  or  overcast  joint.  All 
connections  of  lead  waste  and  vent  pipes  shall  be  made 
by  means  of  wiped  joints,  and  all  connections  of  galvan- 
ized wrought  iron  pipe  shall  be  made  with  screcv  joints. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  31.) 

Sec.  280.  Drain  pipes  from  refrigerators;  to  dis- 
charge into  open  sink;  discharge  from  overflow  pipe 
regulated. — No  drain  pipe  from  a  refrigerator  shall  be 
connected  with  the  soil  or  waste  pipe,  but  it  shall  dis 
charge  into  a  properly  trapped,  sewer-connected,  water- 
supplied,  open  sink.  Xo  overflow  pipe  from  a  tank 
shall  discharge  into  any  soil  or  waste  pipe,  or  water- 
closet  trap,  or  into  the  drain  or  sewer,  but  it  may  dis- 
charge upon  the  roof  or  into  an  open  water-supplied  tank. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  34.) 

Sec.  281.  Waste,  soil,  and  vent  pipes;  to  be  con- 
structed and  located  so  as  not  to  contribute  to  the  creation 
of  a  nuisance. — All  waste,  soil,  and  vent  pipes  in  any 
building  in  the  City  of  Xew  York  shall  extend  above  the 
roof  thereof  to  a  height  of  at  least  two  feet,  and  that 


118  Sections  282,  283  and  284 

portion  of  the  pipe  extending  above  the  roof  shall  be  of 
an  increased  diameter.  All  such  pipes  shall  be  so  con- 
structed and  located  tha/t  they  shall  not  contribute  to 
the  creation  of  a  nuisance.      (S.  C.  Sec.  36.) 

Sec.  282.  Ventilation  of  sewers  and  plumbing. — No 
brick,  sheet  metal,  or  earthenware,  material  or  chimney 
flue  shall  be  used  as  a  sewer  ventilator,  or  to  ventilate 
any  trap,  drain,  soil,  or  waste  pipe.      (S.  C.  Sec.  29.) 

Sec.  283.  Rain  water  leaders  and  gutters;  use  re-! 
stricted;  to  be  sound,  tight,  and  adequate. — Rain  water 
leaders  and  gutters  shall  be  sound,  tight,  and  adequate 
for  their  purpose  and  such  leaders  shall  not  be  used 
as  soil,  waste,  or  vent  pipes,  or  be  connected  therewith; 
nor  shall  any  soil,  waste,  or  vent  pipe  be  used  as  a  leader. 
When  within  the  house,  the  leader  must  be  of  cast  iron, 
wrought  iron,  or  steel,  with  leaded  joints  and  properly 
connected  with  the  house  drain ;  when  outside  of  the  house 
and  connected  with  the  house  drain,  it  must  be  trapped 
beneath  the  ground  or  just  inside  of  the  wall,  the  trap 
being  arranged  in  either  case  so  as  to  prevent  freezing. 
In  every  case  where  a  sewer  or  cesspool  connected  leader! 
opens  near  a  window  or  a  light-shaft,  it  must  be  properly 
trapped  at  its  base.  The  joint  between  a  cast  iron 
leader  and  the  roof  must  be  made  gas  and  water  tight  by 
means  of  a  brass  ferrule  and  a  lead  or  copper  pipe  properly 
connected.     (S.  C.  Sec.  35.) 

Sec.  284.  Privies  and  water  closets;  maintenance. — 
Every  owner,  lessee,  keeper,  or  manager  of  any  boarding- 
ing-house,  lodging-house,  dwelling-house,  and  any  fac- 
tory, workroom,  store,  office,  or  place  of  business,  in  which! 
persons  are  employed,  shall  provide,  or  cause  to  be  pro- 
vided, for  the  use  of  the  tenants,  boarders,  lodgersj 
dwellers  or  employees  therein  adequate  privies  or  water- 
closets,  and  the  same  shall  be  properly  lighted  and  ven- 


Sections  2S5,  2S6  and  287  119 

tilated,  and  shall  at  all  times  be  kept  in  such  cleanly  and 
sanitary  condition,  as  not  to  be  offensive  or  dangerous 
or  detrimental  to  life  or  healt-j.  And  no  offensive  smell 
or  gases,  from  any  outlet  or  sewer  or  from  any  such  privy 
or  water-closet,  shall  be  allowed  to  pass  into  any  other 
part  of  said  house,  building,  or  premises,  or  into  any  other 
house,  building,  or  premises.      (S.  C.  Sec.  20.) 

Sec.  285.  Temporary  privies;  to  be  provided  dur- 
ing construction  work. — Contractors  or  builders  shall 
provide  or  cause  to  be  provided  temporary  privies  for 
the  use  of  the  men  employed  during  construction  work, 
at  some  convenient  place  upon  the  premises,  or  wnich 
shall  be  readily  accessible,  and  the  same  shall  be  properly 
screened  to  prevent  the  entrance  of  flies  thereto.  The 
contents  of  such  privies  shall  be  disinfected  and  removed, 
and  shall  not  be  allowed  to  accumulate  thereat.  Con- 
tractors, builders,  or  other  persons  having  the  manage- 
ment and  control  of  construction  wrork  shall  prevent  the 
commission  of  any  nuisance  by  workers,  employees,  or 
other  persons  connected  therewith,  in  and  about  such  work 
or  premises,  and  require  workers  and  employees  to  use 
the  privies  so  provided.      (S.  C.  Sec.  37a.) 

Sec.  2S6.  Privies  to  be  screened  to  prevent  access 
of  flies. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  owmer,  lessee,  or 
occupant  of  any  premises  on  w^hich  a  privy  is  located 
or  used  to  cause  the  same  to  be  properly  screened  so  that 
flies  shall  not  have  access  thereto  or  to  the  contents 
thereof.      (S.  C.  Sec.  37a.) 

Sec.  287.  Privy  vaults  and  cesspools;  construction. — 
No  privy  vault  or  cesspool  shall  be  allowed  to  remain 
on  any  premises,  or  built,  in  the  City  of  New  York  unless. 
when  unavoidable.  The  sides  and  bottom  of  every 
privy  vault,  cesspool,  or  "school  sink,"  in  the  City  of 
New  York,  must  be  impermeable  and  secure  against  any 


120  Section  301 

saturation  of  the  walls  or  the  ground  above  the  same, 
unless  otherwise  allowed  by  a  permit  in  writing  issued 
therefor  b}^  the  Board  of  Health  and  must  then  be  used 
in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  the  Regu- 
lations of  said  Board.  No  water-closet  or  privy  vault 
shall  be  constructed  without  adequate  provision  for  the 
effectual  and  proper  ventilation  and  cleansing  thereof. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  37.) 


ARTICLE  15. 
Railroad  Cars  and  Other  Public  Vehicles. 

Sec.  301.     Public  vehicles   and  other  public  places;     to 

be  cleaned  daily. 
Sec.  302.     Railroad     cars     and     other    public     vehicles; 

carrying    or    conveying    soiled     or    dirty 

clothing  restricted. 
Sec.  303.     Railroad  cars  and  other  public  vehicles;     to 

be  adequately  and  sufficiently  ventilated. 
Sec.  304.     Heating. 
Sec.  305.     Lighting. 

Sec.  306.     Cars,  not  to  be  over-crowded.      (Annulled.) 
Sec.  307.     Public     vehicles     not     to     be     over-crowded. 

(Annulled.) 


Sec.  301.  Public  vehicles  and  other  public  places;  to 
be  cleaned  daily.— Every  railroad  car,  omnibus,  and 
ferryboat,  used  in  the  City  of  New  York  for  carrying 
passengers,  and  every  railroad  depot,  railroad  station, 
railroad  platform,  and  ferryhouse,  and  every  stairway 
and  other  means  of  entrance  thereto  or  exit  therefrom, 


Sections  302,  303  and  304  121 

shall,  on  each  and  every  day  on  which  it  shall  be  used, 
be  carefully  and  thoroughly  cleaned  so  that  all  refuse, 
dirt,  and  filth  are  removed  therefrom,  in  such  manner 
as  to  avoid  the  raising  of  dust.  Dry  sweeping  is  pro- 
hibited. (S.  C.  Sec.  173.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  May  31,  1916,  and  as  further  amended  October 
15,  1918.) 

Sec.  302.  Railroad  cars  and  other  public  vehicles; 
carrying  or  conveying  soiled  or  dirty  clothing  restricted. — 
No  person  shall  at  any  time  carry  or  convey  upon  or  in 
any  passenger  car  or  other  public  vehicle,  nor  shall  any 
conductor  or  person  in  charge  of  any  such  car  or  other 
public  vehicle,  permit  or  allow  to  be  carried  or  conveyed 
upon  or  in  such  car  or  other  public  vehicle,  except  upon 
or  on  the  front  platform  thereof,  any  soiled  or  dirty  articles 
or  clothing  or  bedding.  (S.  C.  174.)  (As  amended  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  December  16,  1916.) 
•  Sec.  303.  Railroad  cars  and  other  public  vehicles; 
to  be  adequately  and  sufficiently  ventilated. — Every 
railroad  car  and  other  public  vehicle  used  in  the  City 
of  New  York  for  carrying  of  passengers  shall  be  constructed 
so  as  to  provide  and  secure,  at  all  times,  good,  adequate 
and  sufficient  ventilation,  and  such  good,  adequate  and 
sufficient  ventilation  shall  be  maintained  at  all  times  by 
natural  or  mechanical  means.  (S.  C.  Sec.  175.)  (As 
amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  16,  1916.) 

Sec.  304.  Heating. — Every  railroad  car  and  other 
public  vehicle,  and  every  ferryboat,  used  in  the  City 
of  New  York  for  carrying  passengers,  and  every  depot, 
station,  ferryhouse,  and  waiting  room  used  in  connection 
with  such  means  of  transit,  shall,  between  the  first  day 
of  October  of  each  year  and  the  first  day  of  April  of  each 
following  year,  be  properly  heated  and  kept  heated  when- 
ever the  temperature  upon  the    street    shall    fall   below 


122  Sections  305,  306  and  307 

forty  degrees  Fahrenheit.  (As  amended  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  December  16,  1916.) 

Sec.  305.  Lighting. — Every  railroad  car  and  other 
public  vehicle,  and  every  ferryboat  used  in  the  City 
of  New  York  for  carrying  passengers,  and  every  depot, 
station,  ferryhouse,  waiting  room  and  other  public  place 
or  premises  used  in  connection  with  such  means  of  transit 
shall  be  at  all  times  adequately  lighted,  by  natural  or 
artifiical  means.  (As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
December  16,  1916.) 

Sec.  306.  Cars  not  to  be  overcrowded. — The  carrying 
of  passengers  on  railroad  cars  in  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  be  so  regulated  at  all  times  that  the  number  of 
passengers  on  any  such  car  at  any  time  shall  not  exceed 
one  and  one-half  times  the  seating  capacity  of  the  car; 
provided,  however,  that  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  not  apply  when  the  full  number  of  cars 
which  shah  have  been  ordered  by  the  Public  Service  Com- 
mission to  be  operated  on  any  line  or  part  of  a  line  are  so 
operated;  and  provided,  further,  that  the  foregoing 
provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply,  in  the  absence  of 
such  an  order  of  the  public  Service  Commission,  when 
the  maximum  number  of  cars  which  can  be  practicably 
operated  on  any  line  or  part  of  a  line  are  so  operated. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  16,  1916, 
and  annulled,  March  28,  1918.) 

Sec.  307.  Public  vehicles  not  to  be  overcrowded. — 
The  carrying  of  passengers  on  all  public  vehicles  in  the 
City  of  New  York  other  than  railroad  cars  shall  be  so 
regulated  at  all  times  that  the  number  of  passengers 
on  any  such  vehicle  at  any  time  shall  not  exceed  one  and 
one-half  times  the  seating  capacity  of  such  vehicle. 
(As  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  16,  1916, 
and  annulled,  March  28,  1918.) 


Sections  311,  312  and  313  123 

ARTICLE    16. 

Street  Conditions. 

Sec.  311.     Method  of  cleaning  streets  regulated. 

Sec.  312.     Street  obstructions  prohibited. 

Sec.  313.     Dirt  and  other  materials  not  to  obstruct  street. 


Sec.  311.  Method  of  cleaning  streets  regulated. — 
Every  person,  when  cleaning  any  street,  shall  clean, 
and  every  contractor  shall  cause  to  be  cleaned,  the 
gutters  and  parts  of  the  street  along  which  the  water 
will  run,  before  using  any  water  to  wash  the  same;  and 
no  substance  that  could  be  before  scraped  away  shall 
be  washed  or  allowed  to  be  carried  or  be  put  into  the  sewer, 
or  into  any  receptacle  therewith  connected.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  30.) 

Sec.  312.  Street  obstructions  prohibited. — Xo  person 
having  the  right  and  ability  to  prevent,  shall  take  or  drive 
or  allow  to  go  or  be  taken,  any  horse  or  other  animal, 
or  any  vehicle,  upon  any  sidewalk  or  footpath  in  front 
of  any  building,  to  the  peril  of  any  person;  nor  shall 
any  person  block  or  obstruct,  or  contribute  to  the  block- 
ing or  obstructing  of,  any  street  or  other  public  place. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  78.) 

Sec.  313.  Dirt  and  other  materials  not  to  obstruct 
street. — No  person  shall  deposit  upon  any  street  or 
public  place  within  the  generally  built-up  portion  of  the 
City  of  Xew  York,  or  upon  any  paved  street  in  the  said 
City,  any  dirt,  brick,  or  other  material,  in  such  manner 
as  to  occupy  more  than  one  hundred  square  feet  of  surface 
of  any  such  street  or  public  place  (and  the  same  shall  be 
compact  and  at  one  side);  nor  shall  any  person  allow  the 
same  to  remain  in  said  street  or  public  place  more  than 


124  Article  17 

twelve  hours  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the| 
Board  of  Health,  or  unless  such  occupancy  shall  be  other- 
wise duly  authorized  by  paramount  authority.  Nor  shall ; 
any  such  substance  be  so  deposited  or  allowed  to  remain, 
by  any  person,  as  to  obstruct  the  free  nowage  along  anyj 
gutter.      (S.  C.  Sec.  117.) 


ARTICLE    17. 

Trades,  Occupations  and  Businesses. 

Sec.  321.     Occupations     and    businesses,     dangerous    or 

detrimental  to  life  or  health,   prohibited. 
Sec.  322.     Offensive    or   noisome   trades    and   businesses^ 

regulated. 
Sec.  323.     Certain    offensive    or    noisome    trades,    occu-c 

pations,    and    business    prohibited    in    the 

Borough  of  Manhattan. 
Sec.  324.     Certain    offensive    or    noisome    businesses    in 

the    Boroughs    of    Brooklyn,    The    Bronx/ 

Queens,  and  Richmond  regulated. 
Sec.  325.     Business  of  slaughtering  cattle,  sheep,  swine, 

pigs,  calves,  and  fowl  regulated. 
Sec.  326.     Business  of  slaughtering  cattle,  horses,  sheep  J 

swine,   pigs,    and   calves  restricted  in  the 

Borough  of  Manhattan. 
Sec.  327.     Slaughtering    of    horses    and    sale    of    horse 

flesh  for  food  regulated. 
Sec.  328.     Tanning,   skinning,    and  scouring  or  dressing 

hides  and  leather  regulated. 
Sec.  329.     Business  of  rendering  and  melting  fat  regulated:'' 
Sec.  330.     Business  of  manufacturing  or  preparing  sau-| 

sages  and  smoking  or  preserving  meat  ori 

fish  regulated. 


Sections  321  and  322  L25 

Business  of  breaking  out  eggs  regulated;  sale 
of  "spots"  and  "spot  eggs"  prohibited; 
the  term  "spot"  and  "spot  eggs"  defined. 

Boiling  varnish  or  oil;  distilling  alcoholic 
spirits;  making  lampblack,  turpentine,  or 
tar;  treating  and  refining  ores,  metals, 
or  alloys  of  metals;    regulated. 

Gas  manufacture  regulated  and  restricted; 
plans  of  buildings  and  location  to  be  ap- 
proved. 

Lodging  houses  regulated. 

Barber  shops  regulated. 

Public  laundries  regulated. 

Duty  of  employers  to  provide  means  to 
prevent  occupational  diseases. 

Manufacturing,  sorting  and  handling  cigars, 
cigarettes  and  tobacoo  regulated. 

Removal  of  dust,  gases,  and  other  impuri- 
ties from  workrooms  by  suction  devices. 

Bathing  establishments  regulated. 

Ocean  bathing;    regulations  for  protection. 

Horseshoeing  establishments  regulated. 


Sec.  321.  Occupations  and  businesses,  dangerous 
or  detrimental  to  life  or  health,  prohibited. — Xo  occu- 
pation or  business  that  is  dangerous  or  detrimental  to 
life  or  health  shall  be  established  or  carried  on  in  the 
City  of  New  York.      (S.  C.  Sec.  92.)     ' 

Sec.  322.  Offensive  or  noisome  trades  and  businesses 
regulated. — Xo  establishment  or  place  for  carrying  on 
any  offensive  or  noisome  trade  or  business  shall  be  opened, 
started,  established,  or  maintained  in  the  City  of  Xew 
York,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of 


126  Sections  323,  324  and  325 

Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  88.) 

Sec.  323.  Certain  offensive  or  noisome  trades,  occu- 
pations, and  businesses  prohibited  in  the  Borough  of 
Manhattan. — It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  per- 
sons, or  corporation,  to  carry  on,  establish,  prosecute,  or; 
continue,  within  the  Borough  of  Manhattan,  the  occu- 
pation, or  trade,  or  business,  of  bone  boiling,  bone  burn- 
ing, bone  grinding,  horse  skinning,  cow  skinning,  or  skin- 
ning of  dead  animals,  or  the  boiling  of  offal ;  and  any  such 
establishment  existing  within  said  Borough  shall  be  forth- 
with removed  from  said  Borough,  and  such  occupation, 
trade,  or  business  shall  be  forthwith  abated  and  dis- 
continued, provided  that  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  not  apply  to  the  slaughtering  or  dressing  of  animals 
for  sale  in  said  Borough.      (S.  C.  Sec.  90.) 

Sec.  324.  Certain  offensive  or  noisome  businesses 
in  the  Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  The  Bronx,  Queens,  and] 
Richmond  regulated. — The  business  of  bone  crushing,! 
bone  boiling,  bone  grinding,  bone  or  shell  burning,  lime 
making,  horse  skinning,  cow  skinning,  glue  making  from! 
any  part  of  dead  animals,  gut  cleaning,  hide  curing,  fatfl 
rendering,  boiling  of  fish,  swill,  or  offal,  heating,  drying,! 
or  storing  of  blood,  scrap,  fat,  grease,  or  other  offensive' 
animal  matter  or  of  offensive  vegetable  matter,  or  manu-i 
facturing  materials  for  manure  or  fertilizer,  shall  not  be 
carried  on  in  the  Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  The  Bronx, 
Queens,  or  Richmond  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  byj 
the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with; 
the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  saiqf 
Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  91.) 

Sec.  325.  Business  of  slaughtering  cattle,  sheep, 
swine,  pigs,  calves,  and  fowl  regulated. — The  business: 


Sections  326  and  327  127 

;  of  slaughtering  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  pigs,  calves,  or  fowl 
shall  not  be  conducted  in  the  City  of  New  York  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  It  shall  not  be 
unlawful,  however,  to  slaughter  cattle,  sheep,  swine, 
pigs,  or  calves  in  the  Borough  of  Brooklyn,  at  such  places 
where  such  business  was  established  and  carried  on  on 
January  3,  1S98.      (S.  C.  Sec.  83.) 

Sec.  326.  Business  of  slaughtering  cattle,  horses, 
sheep,  swine,  pigs,  and  calves  restricted  in  the  Borough 
of  Manhattan. — The  business  of  slaughtering  cattle, 
horses,  sheep,  or  calves  shall  not  be  conducted  in  the 
Borough  of  Manhattan  except  in  that  part  of  the  said 
Borough  bounded  by  the  West  Side  of  Eleventh  Avenue, 
the  middle  line  of  the  block  between  West  38th  and 
West  39th  Streets  (west  of  Eleventh  Avenue),  the  North 
River,  and  the  south  side  of  West  41st  Street;  and  in 
that  part  of  the  said  Borough  bounded  by  the  east  side  of 
First  Avenue,  the  middle  line  of  the  block  between  East 
42nd  Street  and  East  43rd  Street  (east  of  First  Avenue), 
the  East  River,  and  the  south  side  of  East  47th  Street. 

The  business  of  slaughtering  swine  and  pigs  shall  not 
be  continued  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan  except  in 
that  part  of  the  said  Borough  bounded  by  the  west  side 
of  Eleventh  Avenue,  the  middle  line  of  the  block  between 
West  38th  and  West  39th  Streets  (west  of  Eleventh 
Avenue),  the  North  River,  and  the  south  side  of  West 
41st  Street.  (S.  C.  Sec.  84.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  327.  Slaughtering  of  horses  and  sale  of  horse- 
flesh for  food  regulated. — The  business  of  slaughtering 
horses  shall  not  be  conducted  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
nor  shall  any  horseflesh  be  brought  into,  or  held,  kept, 


128  Sections  328,  329,  330  and  331 

or  offered  for  sale  in  said  City  without  a  permit  therefor, 
issued  by  the  Board  of  Health,  or  otherwise  than  in 
accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  the  Regu- 
lations of  said  Board.  (S.  C.  Sec.  86.)  (As  amended  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  328.  Tanning,  skinning,  and  scouring  or  dressing 
hides  and  leather  regulated. — No  establishment  or  place 
of  business  for  tanning,  skinning,  or  scouring,  or  for 
dressing  hides  or  leather  shall  be  opened,  started,  estab- 1 
lished,  or  maintained  in  the  City  of  New  York,  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  88.) 

Sec.  329.  Business  of  rendering  and  melting  fat 
regulated. — The  business  of  rendering  or  melting  fat 
shall  not  be  carried  on  in  the  City  of  New  York  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- ' 
wise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  i 
with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  95.) 

Sec.  330.  Business  of  manufacturing  or  preparing 
sausages  and  smoking  or  preserving  meat  or  fish  regu- 
lated.— The  business  of  manufacturing  or  preparing 
sausages  or  smoking  or  preserving  meat  or  fish  shall  not 
be  carried  on,  nor  shall  any  place  therefor  be  established 
in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit  therefor  issued 
by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  • 
of  said  Board.       (S.  C.  Sec.  49a.) 

Sec.  331.  Business  of  breaking  out  eggs  regulated; 
sale  of  "spots"  and  "spot  eggs"  prohibited;  the  term 
"spot"  and  "spot  eggs"  defined. — No  person  shall  breaks! 
out  eggs  for  sale  or  conduct  the  business  of  breaking 
out  eggs  to  be  canned,  frozen,  dried,  or  used  in  any  other 
manner,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 


Section  332  129 

I  from  the  shell,  whether  canned,  frozen,  dried,  or  treated 
in  any  other  manner,  shall  be  received,  held,  kept,  sold, 
offered  for  sale,  or  delivered  in  the  said  City  without  a 
permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 

I  wise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 

'  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board. 

(a)  No  person  shall  receive,  hold,  keep,  sell,  offer  for 
sale,  or  deliver,  as  or  for  food,  or  to  be  used  in  food,  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  any  canned,  frozen  or  dried  eggs, 
or  eggs  broken  from  the  shell,  which  are  adulterated  or  to 
which  has  been  added  any  poisonous  ingredient  or  any 
ingredient  which  may  render  such  eggs  injurious  to  health, 
or  to  which  has  been  added  any  antiseptic,  preservative, 
or  foreign  substance  not  evident  and  not  known  to  the 
purchaser  or  consumer,  or  which  shall  contain  filthy, 
decomposed,  or  putrid  animal  matter. 

(b)  No  person  shall  keep,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  as  food 
any  "spots"  or  "spot  eggs."  Such  eggs  in  the  possession 
of  a  dealer  in  food  shall,  prima  facie,  be  deemed  to  be  held, 
kept,  and  offered  for  sale,  as  such  food. 

The  term  "spots"  and  "spot  eggs,"  when  used  herein, 
shall  be  taken  to  mean  all  eggs  that  are  partially  hatched, 
broken  yolked,  blood  ringed,  or  veined,  and  all  unsound 
eggs,  including  those  affected  by  moulds  or  which  are 
partly  decomposed  or  that  have  become  sour.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  48a.) 

Sec.  332.  Boiling  varnish  or  oil;  distilling  alcoholic 
spirits;  making  lampblack,  turpentine,  or  tar;  treating 
and  refining  ores,  metals,  or  alloys  of  metals;  regulated. 
—No  person  shall  hereafter  erect  or  establish  in  the  City 
of  New  York  any  manufactory  or  place  of  business,  for 
boiling  any  varnish  or  oil,  for  the  distilling  of  any  ardent 
or  alcoholic  spirits,  for  making  any  lampblack,  turpen- 
tine, or  tar,  for  the  treating  and  refining  of  ores,  metals, 


130  Sections  333  axd  334 

or  alloys  of  metals,  with  acids  or  heat,  or  for  conducting 
any  other  business  that  will  or  does  generate  any  offen- 
sive or  deleterious  gas,  vapor,  deposit,  or  exhalation, 
without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health 
or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said 
permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  94.)     . 

Sec.  333.     Gas  manufacture  regulated  and  restricted; 
plans   of   buildings   and   location   to   be    approved. — Xo 
person  or  corporation  being  a  manufacturer  of  gas,   or 
engaged    in    or    about    the    manufacture    thereof,    shall 
throw  or  deposit  or  allow  to  run,  or  shall  permit  to  be 
thrown  or  deposited,   into   any  public  waters,   river,   or 
stream,  or  into  any  sewer  therewith  connected,  or   into 
any  street  or  other  public  place,  any  gas,  tar,  or  any  refuse 
matter  of  or  from  any  gas-house  works,   manufactory, 
mains,    or   service  pipes,    or   permit   the   escape   of    any 
offensive  odors  from  their  works,  mains  or  pipes;    nor: 
shall  any  such   person  or  corporation  permit  to  escape; 
from  any  of  their  works,  mains,  or  pipes,  any  gas  dangerous . 
or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health,  or  manufacture  illuminating 
gas  of  such  ingredients  and  quality  that  in  the  process  i 
ol  burning  it  any  substance  which  may  escape  therefrom  | 
shall  be  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  or  health;    nor: 
shall  any  such  person  or  corporation  fail  to  use  the  most 
approved  and   all  reasonable  means  for  preventing  the 
escape  of  odors. 

Xo  buildings  shall  be  erected  or  converted  into,  or 
used  as  a  place  for  the  manufacture  of  illuminating  gas,* 
until  the  plans  of  such  buildings  and  the  location  thereof, . 
shall  have  been  duly  approved  in  writing  by  the  Board" 
of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  89.) 

Sec.  334.  Lodging  houses  regulated. — Xo  lodging-, 
house  containing  rooms  in  which  there  are  more  than; 


Sections  335,  336,  337  and  338  131 

three  beds  for  the  use  of  lodgers,  or  in  which  more  than 
six  persons  are  allowed  to  sleep,  shall  be  conducted, 
maintained,  cr  operated  in  the  City  of  New  York  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  said  permit 
and  the  Regulations  of  the  said  Board.      (S.  C.  Sec.  21.) 

Sec.  335.  Barber  shops  regulated. — No  barber  shop 
in  the  City  of  New  York  shall  be  conducted  otherwise 
than  in  accordance  with  the  Regulations  of  the  Board 
of  Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  179.) 

Sec.  336.  Public  laundries  regulated. — No  public 
laundry  shall  be  conducted  otherwise  than  in  accord- 
ance with  the  Regulations  of  the  Board  of  Health.  The 
provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  the  home  of  a 
person  performing  laundry  work  thereat  for  a  regular 
family  trade. 

Sec.  337.  Duty  of  employers  to  provide  means  to 
prevent  occupational  diseases. — Every  employer  shall 
provide  reasonably  effective  devices,  means,  and  methods 
to  prevent  the  contraction  by  his  employees  of  any  ill- 
ness or  disease  incident  to  the  work  or  process  in  which 
such  employees  are  engaged. 

Sec.  33S.  Manufacturing,  sorting  and  handling  cigars, 
cigarettes  and  tobacco  regulated. — No  person  engaged 
in  the  City  of  New  York  in  manufacturing,  sorting,  or 
handling,  cigars,  or  cigarettes  or  in  preparing,  sorting, 
or  handling,  tobacco  for  any  purpose,  shall,  at  any  time, 
touch  with  lips,  teeth,  or  tongue  any  such  cigar  or  cigar- 
ette or  any  such  tobacco,  intended  to  be  sold  or  offered 
for  sale;  nor  shall  any  person  moisten  with  saliva, 
directly  or  indirectly,  by  spitting,  or  by  use  of  the  fingers, 
or  utensils  or  accessories  of  any  kind,  any  such  cigar  or 
cigarette  or  any  such  tobacco;  nor  shall  any  person 
spray  or  moisten  any  such  cigar  or  cigarette  or  any  such 


132  Sections  339  and  340 

tobacco  by  means  of  water  or  any  other  liquid,  emitted 
from  the  mouth;  nor  shall  any  part  of  any  such  cigar 
or  cigarette  be  allowed  to  touch  or  be  introduced  into  the : 
nose  of  any  person. 

A  copy  of  this  section  shall  be  conspicuously  posted 
in  every  place  where  such  cigars  or  cigarettes  are,  or 
tobacco  is  manufactured,  prepared,  sorted,  or  handled. 
(As  amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  339.  Removal  of  dust,  gases,  and  other  impuri- 
ties from  workrooms  by  suction  devices. — Every  factory 
and  other  place  of  business  in  any  workroom  of  which,  \ 
in  the  course  of  business,  dust,  gases,  fumes,  vapors, ; 
fibers,  or  other  impurities  are  generated,  released,  or  set 
in  motion,  in  quantities  tending  to  injure  the  health  of  J 
the  persons  therein  employed,  shall  be  provided  with 
suction  devices  that  will  remove  such  dust,  gases,  fumes, 
vapors,  fibers,  or  other  impurities  from  every  such  work- 
room, and  such  devices  shall  be  installed  as  near  as 
practicable  to  the  place  where  such  dust,  gases,  fumes,  \ 
vapor,  fibers,  or  other  impurities  are  generated,  released, 
or  set  in  motion.  Such  devices  shall,  also,  be  kept  con- 
stantly working  when  their  employment  is  necessary  to] 
meet  the  requirements  of  this  section. 

Every  factory  and  other  place  of  business  in  any  work- 
room  of  which,  through  the  nature  of  the  business  carried] 
on,  excessive  heat  is  created  shall  be  provided  with  such,: 
means  or  appliances  as  will  appreciably  reduce  such  heattj 
and  such  means  or  appliances  shall  be  constantly  em- 
ployed when  such  excessive  heat  is  being  created. 

Sec.  340.  Bathing  establishments  regulated. — Bath-li 
ing  suits  shall  not  be  hired  out,  nor  shall  any  bathing! 
establishment  be  maintained  in  the  City  of  Xew  York' 
without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Healths 
or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said| 


Section  341  133 

permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  For  the  pur- 
pose of  this  section,  the  expression  "bathing  establish- 
ment" shall  be  taken  to  mean  and  include  every  building, 
room,  enclosure,  place  or  premises  wherein  bathing  is 
permitted  for  hire  or  wherein  bathing  suits  are  hired  out 
or  which,  for  hire,  is  used  for  the  purpose  of  dressing  or 
undressing  in  connection  with  the  wearing,  putting  on  or 
taking  off  of  bathing  suits.  (S.  C.  Sec.  26).  (As 
amended  by  the  Board  of  Health,  June  28,  1916,  and 
as  further  amended  June  28,  1917.) 

Sec.  341.  Ocean  bathing;  regulations  for  protection. 
— Every  keeper  or  proprietor  of  a  hotel  or  boarding  house, 
and  even.*  other  person  having  a  bathing-house  upon  or 
near  any  beach  or  shore  of  the  ocean  for  the  accommo- 
dation of  his  guests  or  other  persons,  for  pay,  shall  pro- 
vide for  the  safety  of  such  bathers  two  lines  of  sound, 
serviceable,  and  strong  manila  or  hemp  rope,  not  less  than 
one  inch  in  diameter,  anchored  at  some  point  above  high 
water,  at  the  same  distance  apart  as  the  width  of  the 
space  occupied  by  him  fronting  on  such  beach;  and  from 
the  two  points  at  which  such  life  lines  are  so  anchored, 
such  lines  shall  be  made  to  extend  as  far  into  the  surf 
as  bathing  therein  is  ordinarily  safe  and  free  from  dan- 
ger of  drowning  to  persons  not  expert  in  swimming,  and 
at  such  limit  points  of  safety  such  lines  shall  be  anchored 
and  buoyed.  From  such  limit  points  of  such  lines  so 
extended,  anchored,  and  buoyed,  a  third  line  shall  be 
extended,  connecting  the  two  extremities  of  sucn  lines, 
and  buoyed  at  such  points  as  to  be  principally  above  the 
surface  of  the  water,  thereby  inclosing  a  space  within  such 
lines  and  the  beach  within  which  bathing  is  believed  to 
be  safe.  Every  such  keeper,  proprietor,  or  other  such 
person  shall  cause  to  be  painted  and  put  up  in  some 
prominent   place    upon   the   beach,    near   such    bathing- 


134  Section  342 

houses,  the  following  words:  "Bathing  beyond  the  lines 
dangerous."  Such  lines  so  placed,  anchored,  and  buoyed, 
and  such  notice  so  put  up,  shall  be  so  maintained  by  every 
such  keeper,  proprietor,  or  other  person  during  the  entire 
season  of  surf  bathing.  The  owner  of  a  bathing-house 
shall  not  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  section  where 
such  bathing-house  is  used,  occupied,  or  maintained  by  a 
lessee  for  hire,  but,  in  such  instances,  the  lessee  shall  be 
deemed  the  keeper  or  proprietor  thereof.  (S.  C.  Sec.  26.) 
Sec.  342.  Horseshoeing  establishments  regulated. — 
No  horseshoeing  establishment  shall  be  conducted  or 
maintained  in  the  City  of  New  York  without  a  permit 
therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health,  or  otherwise  than 
in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit  and  the 
Regulations  of  said  Board. 

ARTICLE    18. 

Vessels  and  Seamen. 

Sec.  351.     Duties  of  masters,  chief  officers,  and  physicians. 

Sec.  352.  Vessels  from  infected  ports,  or  liable  to 
quarantine;  not  to  be  brought  within 
three  hundred  yards  of  docks  or  piers 
unless  permitted. 

Sec.  353.  Vessels  not  in  quarantine;  duty  of  master,  chief 
officers,  and  consignee  to  make  daily  reports. 

Sec.  354.  Removal  of  persons  sick  of  an  infectious 
disease  prohibited. 

Sec.  355.  Removal  of  persons  and  articles  exposed  to  infec- 
tious diseases  restricted:  permit  required. 

Sec.  356.  Straw,  bedding,  clothing,  and  other  sub- 
stances;   not  to  be  cast  into  public  waters. 

Sec.  357.  Births,  marriages,  and  deaths;  duty  of  offi- 
cers, surgeons,  and  others  to  report. 


Sections  351  and  352  L35 


Sec.  358.     Discharge  of  cargo  regulated. 

See.  359.  Skins,  bides,  rags,  straw,  bedding,  and  other 
articles  and  materials;  removal  and  dis 
tribution  regulated. 

Sec.  360.     Houseboats;   the  use  thereof  regulated. 

Sec.  361.  Boats  and  other  water  craft;  loud  and  ex- 
plosive noises  prohibited. 

Sec.  362.  Duties  of  keepers,  lessees,  tenants,  and  owners 
of   boarding-houses   and  lodging-houses. 


Sec.  351.  Duties  of  masters,  chief  officers,  and 
physicians. — Every  master  and  chief  officer  of  any 
vessel,  and  every  physician  of,  or  who  has  practiced 
on,  any  vessel,  which  shall  arrive  in  the  port  of  Xew 
York  from  any  other  port,  shall  at  once  report  to  the 
Department  of  Health  any  facts  connected  with  any 
person  or  thing  on  said  vessel,  or  that  came  thereon, 
which  he  has  reason  to  think  may  endanger  the  public 
health  of  the  City  of  New  York;  and  he  shall  report  the 
facts  as  to  any  person  thereon  being  or  having  been  sick 
of  an  infectious  disease,  and  as  to  there  being  or  having 
been  thereon  during  the  voyage  or  since  the  arrival  of  any 
such  vessel  any  infected  person  or  articles.     (S.  C.  Sec.  151.) 

Sec.  352.  Vessels  from  infected  ports,  or  liable  to 
quarantine;  not  to  be  brought  within  three  hundred 
yards  of  docks  or  piers  unless  permitted. — Xo  master, 
charterer,  consignee,  or  other  person  shall  order,  bring, 
or  allow  (having  power  and  authority  to  prevent)  any 
vessel  or  person,  or  article  therefrom,  from  any  infected 
port,  or  any  vessel,  or  person  or  article  therefrom,  liable 
to  quarantine,  according  to  the  ninth  section  of  the  three 
hundred  and  fifty-eighth  chapter  of  the  Laws  of  1863 
(or  under  any  other  laws,  and  whether  such  quarantine 
has  been  made  or  suffered  or  not),  to  come  or  be  brought 


136  Sections  353  and  354 

to  any  point  nearer  than  three  hundred  yards  from  any 
dock,  pier,  or  building,  in  the  City  of  Xew  York  without 
a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health,  or  other- 
wise than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  said  permit 
and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  Nor  shall 
any  vessel,  or  person  or  thing  therein  or  therefrom,  having 
been  in  quarantine,  come  or  be  brought  or  be  permitted 
to  remain  within  the  last-named  distance  of  any  last- 
named  place,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the 
Board  of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the 
terms  of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said 
Board.  (S.  C.  Sec.  155.)  (As  amended  by  the  Board  of 
Health,  December  21,  1915.) 

Sec.  353.  Vessels  not  in  quarantine;  duty  of  master, 
chief  officers,  and  consignee  to  make  daily  reports. — 
The  master,  chief  officer,  and  consignee,  of  e\*ery  vessel 
not  being  in  quarantine,  or  within  quarantine  limits, 
but  being  within  one-fourth  of  a  mile  of  any  dock,  wharf, 
pier,  or  building  of  the  City  of  New  York,  shall  daily 
report  to  the  Department  of  Health,  or  cause  to  be 
reported  thereto,  in  writing,  the  particulars,  and  shall 
therein  state  the  name,  disease,  and  condition,  of  any 
person  in  or  on  such  vessel  who  is  sick  of  any  infectious 
disease.       (S.  C.  Sec.  149.) 

Sec.  354.  Removal  of  persons  sick  of  an  infectious 
disease  prohibited. — No  person  shall  bring  into  the  City 
of  Xew  York  from  any  infected  place,  or  land  at  or  take 
into  the  said  City  from  any  vessel  lately  from  an  in- 
fected port,  or  from  any  vessel  or  building  in  which  has 
lately  been  any  person  sick  of  an  infectious  disease, 
any  article  or  person  whatsoever,  nor  shall  any  such 
latter  person  land  or  come  into  said  City,  without  a  per- 
mit therefor  issued  -by  the  Board  of  Health  or  otherwise 
than  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and  conditions  of  said 


Sections  355,  356  and  357  137 

■rmit;  and  it  shall  be  no  excuse  that  the  person  so 
>ffending,  or  the  article  involved  in  the  offense,  has 
>assed  through  quarantine,  or  that  a  permit  therefor 
las  been  obtained  from  any  other  source  than  the  said 
3oard.      (S.  C.  Sec.  156.) 

Sec.  355.  Removal  of  persons  and  articles  exposed 
o  infectious  disease  restricted;  permit  required. — Xo 
:aptain,  officer,  consignee,  owner,  or  other  person  in 
Jiarge  of  any  vessel  (or  having  right  and  authority  to 
>revent)  shall  remove  or  aid  in  removing  from  any  vessel 
o  the  shore  (save  as  legally  authorized  by  the  Health 
Officer  of  the  Port  of  New  York,  and  then  into  quaran- 
tine grounds  and  buildings  only)  any  person  sick  of,  or 
jerson  that  has  been  exposed  to  and  is  liable  very  soon 
.o  develop,  any  infectious  disease,  or  so  remove  or  aid  in 
•emoving  any  articles  that  may  have  been  exposed  to  the 
:ontagion  of  any  such  disease,  without  or  otherwise  than 
n  accordance  with  the  terms  and  conditions  of  a  permit 
;herefor  issued  by  the  Board  of  Health.    (S.  C.  Sec.  154.) 

Sec.  356.  Straw,  bedding,  clothing,  and  other  sub- 
stances; not  to  be  cast  into  public  waters. — No  owner, 
)art  owner,  charterer,  agent,  or  consignee  of  any  vessel, 
)r  any  officer  or  person  having  charge  or  control  of  the 
same,  shall  cast  or  allow  to  be  cast,  therefrom,  into  any 
iublic  waters  of  the  City  of  New  York,  any  straw,  bedding, 
Nothing,  or  other  substance.      (S.  C.  Sec.  157.) 

Sec.  357.  Births,  marriages,  and  deaths;  duty  of 
)fficers,  surgeons,  and  others  to  report. — The  master, 
ihief  officer,  ship's  surgeon,  or  the  company,  corporation, 
iharterer,  or  person  having  the  management  and  control 
rf  any  vessel  which  shall  arrive  at  the  port  of  New  York 
shall  report,  in  writing,  to  the  Department  of  Health  of 
;he  City  of  New  Yoik,  within  three  days  after  the  arrival 
)f  such  vessel,  the  death  or  marriage  of  any  resident  of 


138  Sections  358  and  359 

said  City,  or  the  birth  of  any  child,  whose  parents  are 
residents  or  parent  is  a  resident  of  said  City,  occurring 
thereon  at  sea,  and  shall  file  in  the  Bureau  of  Records  oi 
said  Department  a  transcript  of  the  entry  made  in  the 
log  book  of  such  vessel,  in  respect  to  any  such  death, 
marriage,  or  birth.  A  transcript  of  any  death,  marriage 
or  birth  filed  as  aforesaid  may  be  issued,  in  the  discretior 
of  said  Department,  to  any  person,  entitled  to  receive 
the  same.      (S.  C.  Sec.  151a.) 

Sec.  358.  Discharge  of  cargo  regulated. — No  owner 
agent,  or  consignee,  of  any  vessel,  or  cargo,  and  no  office! 
of  any  vessel  (in  respect  of  either  of  which  vessel  or  cargo 
a  permit,  according  to  any  law,  ordinance,  or  regulatioi 
shall  or  should  have  been  obtained  to  pass  quarantine 
or  to  come  up  to  the  water-front  of  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  unload,  or  land,  or  cause  to  be  unladen  or  landed 
such  cargo,  or  any  part  thereof,  at  any  place  in  said  City 
without  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  term 
and  conditions  of  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board  o 
Health.      (S.  C.  Sec.  153.) 

Sec.  359.  Skins,  hides,  rags,  straw,  bedding,  an«j 
other  articles  and  materials;  removal  and  distributicii 
regulated. — No  master,  charterer,  owner,  part  owneij 
or  consignee  of  any  vessel,  or  any  other  person,  shall  brin 
nearer  to  any  dock,  pier,  wharf,  or  building,  than  on 
thousand  feet  therefrom  in  the  City  of  New  York,  o 
unload  at  any  dock,  pier,  wharf,  or  building,  therein 
or  have  on  storage  in  the  built-up  portions  of  said  City; 
any  skins,  hides,  rags,  or  similar  articles  or  materials  whic 
have  been  brought  from  any  foreign  count ry  or  any  in 
fected  place,  or  from  any  points  south  of  Norfolk,  Vii 
ginia,  without  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  th 
terms  and  conditions  of  a  permit  therefor  isstted  by  th 
Board  of  Health,  and  no  person  shall  sell,  exchange,  re] 


Sections  360  and  361  139 

move,  or  in  any  way  expose,  any  straw,  bedding,  or  other 
articles  used  by  immigrants  upon  any  vessel  bringing 
immigrants  to  this  port,  until  it  shall  have  been  ade- 
quately and  properly  cleansed  or  disinfected;  and  all 
straw,  bedding,  or  other  articles  that  have  been  exposed 
on  any  vessel  to  the  contagion  or  infection  of  any  infecti- 
ous disease,  or  have  been  or  are  liable  to  communicate 
such  disease,  shall  be  destroyed  by  fire  on  said  vessel. 
(S.  C.  Sec.  152.) 

Sec.  360.  Houseboats;  the  use  thereof  regulated. — 
No  houseboat,  while  used  or  occupied  as  such,  shall 
be  moored,  anchored,  or  located  in  the  waters  of  any 
inlet  or  bay  within  the  territorial  limits  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  except  the  upper  or  lower  bay  of  New  York 
•Harbor,  without  a  permit  therefor  issued  by  the  Board 
of  Health  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  said  permit  and  with  the  Regulations  of  said  Board; 
and  no  person  shall  use  or  occupy  for  living  purposes 
any  such  boat  so  moored,  anchored,  or  located,  unless  a 
permit  for  such  boat  has  been  issued  as  hereinbefore 
provided,  or  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
•of  said  permit  and  the  Regulations  of  said  Board.  (S.  C. 
Sec.  157a.) 

Sec.  361.  Boats  and  other  water  craft;  loud  and 
explosive  noises  prohibited. — All  boats  or  other  water 
'craft  plying  on  any  of  the  waters  of  or  adjacent  to  the 
City  of  New  York,  equipped  with  a  gasoline  or  other 
internal  combustion  engine  in  which  a  gas  is  generated 
'or  used  for  purposes  of  propulsion,  shall  be  constructed 
■80  that  the  exhaust  from  such  engine  is  made  to  discharge 
into  a  muffler  or  other  device  which  will  prevent  loud 
!Or  explosive  noises  occurring  on  or  about  any  such  boat 
'  Dr  craft ;  and  no  person  having  the  management  and  con- 
trol of  any  such  boat  or  craft,  or  operating  the  engine 


140  Section  '362 


thereon,  shall  cause,  permit,  suffer,  or  allow  the  exhaust 
from  such  engine  to  discharge  into- the  open  air,  or  other- 
wise than  into  a  muffler  or  other  device  which  will  prevent 
loud  or  explosive  noises  occurring  on  or  about  any  such! 
boat  or  craft.      (S.  C,  Sec.  188.) 

Sec.  362.  Duties  of  keepers,  lessees,  tenants,  and! 
owners  of  boarding-houses  and  lodging-houses. — The 
keepers,  lessees,  tenants,  and  owners  of  every  boarding- 
house  and  lodging-house  shall  forthwith  notify  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  of  the  fact  of  any  seafaring  man,  or  per- 
son coming  lately  from  any  vessel,  being  taken  sick  at; 
such  house,  and  shall,  at  the  same  time,  inform  the  said! 
Department  of  the  premises  where  such  sick  person  may, 
be  found,  and  of  the  name  of  the  vessel  from  which  and; 
the  time  when  such  person  came,  to  the  best  of  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  person  or  persons  giving  such  notice  and  in- 
formation.     (S.  C.  Sec.  150.) 

I,  Charles  L.  Kohler,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Health 
of  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
do  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  a 
resolution  duly  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Health  of  the 
Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  New  York  on  the! 
31st  day  of  December,  1914,  and  of  the  Sanitary  Codej 
of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  Department  of  Health  of 
the  City  of  New  York  as  revised  and  amended  by  the 
adoption  of  the  said  resolution;  and  of  all  amendments 
to  the  said  Sanitary  Code  duly  adopted  by  the  said  Board] 
of  Health  subsequent  to  the  31st  day  of  December,  1914. 

In  Witness  Whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and 

affixed  the  Seal  of  the  said  Department  of  Health  this 

day  of  ,  19 


Secretary. 


APPENDIX 

SELECTED    PROVISIONS    OF   THE 

CHARTER 

OF   THE   CITY   OF   NEW  YORK 
RELATING    TO    THE 

DEPARTMENT   OF   HEALTH 


Sec.  1168.     Authority,    duty   and    powers   of    the    board 

of  health. 
Sec.  1169.     Duty  of  board  as  to  enforcement   of   laws; 

information. 
Sec.  1170.     board    of    health;     powers    of    removal    to 

hospitals  of  persons  sick  with  contagious 

diseases. 
Sec.  1171.     Repairs  of  buildings. 
Sec.  1172.     Sanitary  code. 

Sec.  1173.     Judicial  notice  of  seal  and  presumptions. 
Sec.  1174.     Seal. 
Sec.  1176.     Proceedings  relative  to  dangerous  buildings, 

vessels,  places  and  things. 
Sec.  1178.     Declaration  of  imminent  peril. 
Sec.  1202.     Police  department  assistance. 
Sec.  1210.     Putrid  cargoes  may  be  destroyed. 
Sec.  1222.     Violation  of  orders,  punishment  for. 
Sec.  1262.     Violation  of  department  orders,  actions  for. 
Sec.  1299.     Infected    and    uninhabitable    houses    to    be 

condemned  by  board  of  health. 


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Sec.  1168.     Authority,  duty  and  powers  of  the  board 

of    health. — The    authority,    duty    and    powers    of    the 
department   of   health    shall    extend    over    The    City  of 
New  York,  and  the  waters  adjacent  thereto,  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  said  city,  and  over  the  waters  of  the  bay 
within  the  quarantine  limits  as  established  by  law,  but 
shall  not  be  held  to  interfere  with  the  powers  and  duties 
of  the  commissioners  of  quarantine  or  the  health  officer 
of  the  port.      It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  department  of  j 
health  to  make  an  annual  report  to  the  mayor  of  The  City  j 
of  New  York,  of  all  the  operations  of   the  department 
for  the  previous  year.      The  mayor  may  at  any  time  call 
for  a  fuller  report,  or  for  a  report,  upon  any  portion  of 
the  work  of  said  department,  whenever  he  may  deem  it 
to  be  for  the  public  good  so  to  do.      All  the  authority, 
duty  and  powers  heretofore  conferred  or  enjoined  upon 
the  health  departments,   boards   of   health,   health  and 
sanitary  officers  in  any  of  the  municipal  and  public  cor- 
porations or  parts  thereof,  in  any  of  the  territory  now 
within  or  hereafter  to  become  a  part  of  The  City  of  New  j 
York,  as  constituted  by  this  act,  and  within  the  juris-  i 
diction  of  said  city,  by  chapter  seventy-four  of  the  laws 
of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-six,  and  the  several  acts 
amendatory  thereof,  and  by  any  other  subsequent  laws 
of  this  state,  and  upon  the  several  officers  and  members! 
of  said  boards,  by  the  laws  constituting  and  appointing ; 
all   such   departments,    boards   of   health,    and   sanitary 
officers  and  members  of  said  boards,  by  the  laws  consti-  ■ 
tuting  and  appointing  all  such  departments,  boards  of . 
health  and  sanitary  officers,  and  giving  and  granting  toi 
them,  or  any  of  them,  duties  and  powers  not  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  are  hereby  conferred  upon 
and  vested  in  and  enjoined  upon,  and  shall  hereafter  be* 
exclusively  exercised  in  The  City  of  New  York  by  the! 


Appendix  1  13 

department  of  health,  and  the  same  are  to  be  exercised 
in  the  manner  specified  in  said  chapter  seventy-four  of 
the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-six,  and  the 
sewral  acts  amendatory  thereof,  and  by  any  other  sub- 
sequent laws  of  the  state  relative  to  health  and  sanitary 
matters,  and  the  prevention  of  pestilence  and  disease 
in  said  City  of  New  York,  or  in  any  part  thereof, 
and  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 
'(L.  1SS2,  ch.  410,  Sec.  533;  L.  1889,  ch.  84;  L.  1895, 
ch.  567.) 

vSec.  1169.  Duty  of  board  as  to  enforcement  of  laws; 
information. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  of  health 
to  aid  the  enforcement  of,  and  so  far  as  practicable,  to 
enforce  all  laws  of  this  state,  applicable  in  said  district, 
to  the  preservation  of  human  life,  or  to  the  care,  pro- 
motion, or  protection  of  health;  and  said  board  may 
exercise  the  authority  given  by  said  laws  to  enable  it  to 
discharge  the  duty  hereby  imposed;  and  this  section 
is  intended  to  include  all  laws  relative  to  cleanliness, 
and  to  the  use  or  sale  of  poisonous,  unwholesome,  dele- 
terious, or  adulterated  drugs,  medicines  or  food,  and  the 
necessary  sanitary  supervision  of  the  purity  and  whole- 
someness  of  the  water  supply  and  the  sources  thereof 
for  The  City  of  New  York.  And  said  board  is  author- 
ized to  require  reports  and  information  at  such  times 
and  of  such  facts,  and  generally  of  such  nature  and  ex- 
tent, relative  to  the  safety  of  life  and  promotion  of  health 
as  its  by-laws  or  rules  may  provide,  from  all  public  dis- 
pensaries, hospitals,  asylums,  infirmaries,  prisons  and 
schools,  and  from  the  managers,  principals  and  officers 
thereof;  and  from  all  other  public  institutions,  their 
officers  and  managers,  and  from  the  proprietors,  mana- 
gers, lessees,  and  occupants  of  all  theatres  and  other 
places  of  public  resort  or  amusement  in  said  district;    but 


144  Appendix 

such  reports  and  information  shall  only  be  requirec 
concerning  matters,  or  particulars,  in  respect  of  which 
it  may,  in  its  opinion,  need  information,  for  the  bette: 
discharge  of  its  duties  in  said  City  of  New  York  anc 
every  part  thereof.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  th 
officers,  institutions,  and  persons  so  called  on,  or  referrec 
to,  to  promptly  give  such  information  and  make  sue' 
reports  verbally  or  in  writing  as  may  be  required  by  sal 
board.  The  board  of  health  shall  use  all  reasonable 
means  for  ascertaining  the  existence  and  cause  of  diseas 
or  peril  to  life  or  health,  and  for  averting  the  same 
throughout  the  city,  and  shall  promptly  cause  all  prope 
information  in  possession  of  said  board  to  be  sent  to  th 
local  health  authorities  of  any  city,  village,  or  town  1 
this  state  which  may  request  the  same,  and  shall  ad< 
thereto  such  useful  suggestions  as  the  experience  of  sai 
board  may  supply.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  boarc! 
so  far  as  it  may  be  able,  without  serious  expense,  to  gathe' 
and  preserve  such  information  and  facts  relating  to  death; 
disease  and  health,  from  other  parts  of  this  state,  bu 
especially  in  said  city,  as  may  be  useful  in  the  discharg 
of  its  duties,  and  contribute  to  the  promotion  of  health 
or  the  security  of  life  in  the  state  of  New  York.  It  shal 
be  the  duty  of  said  board  to  give  all  information  that  ma^ 
be  reasonably  requested  concerning  any  threatened  dar 
gei  to  the  public  health,  to  the  health  officer  of  the  port  c 
New  York,  and  to  the  commissioners  of  quarantine  c 
said  port;  who  shall  give  the  like  information  to  sai 
board;  and  said  board,  and  said  officers  and  quarantin 
commissioners  shall,  so  far  as  legal  and  practicable 
co-operate  together  to  prevent  the  spread  of  disease,  an 
for  the  protection  of  life  and  the  promotion  of  healtl 
within  the  sphere  of  their  respective  duties.  Said  boar 
may  grant  bills  of  health  to  masters  of  vessels  ceitifyin 


Appendix  I  15 

to  the  condition  of  the  city  in  respect  of  health.     (L.  1.S82, 
!ch.  410,  Sees.  570,  571 

Sec.  1170.  board  of  health;  powers  of  removal 
to  hospitals  of  persons  sick  with  contagious  diseases.  - 
Said  board  may  remove  or  cause  to  be  removed  to  a 
proper  place  designated  by  it,  any  person  sick  with  a  con- 
tagious, pestilential  or  infectious  disease  and  designate, 
provide  and  pay  for  the  use  of  places  for  such  persons. 
"The  Board  may  erect,  establish,  maintain  and  furnish 
in  such  places  within  the  city  as  are  now  used  or  may 
hereafter  be  designated  by  the  board  of  estimate  and 
apportionment  for  such  purposes,  buildings  and  hospitals 
for  the  care  and  treatment  of  persons  sick  with  contagious 
diseases,  and  shall  have  exclusive  charge  and  control  of 
all  municipal  hospitals  for  the  treatment  of  Asiatic 
cholera,  plague,  typhus  fever,  scarlet  fever,  yellow  fever, 
measles,  diphtheria  and  smallpox,  but  this  shall  not  be 
construed  to  require  the  board  of  health  to  remove  any 
person  suffering  from  any  of  these  diseases  to  the  hospital 
tfcherefor,  unless  in  its  judgment  such  removal  is  necessary 
for  the  protection  of  the  public  health.  With  the  con- 
icurrence  in  writing  of  the  department  or  departments 
thereby  affected,  the  board  of  health  shall,  from  time 
to  time,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  board  of  estimate 
and  apportionment,  designate  such  hospitals  established 
■for  or  actually  caring  for  persons  suffering  from  a  pestilen- 
tial, contagious  or  infectious  disease,  as  in  its  judgment, 
should,  in  the  public  interest  and  for  the  protection  of 
the  public  health,  be  under  the  exclusive  charge  and  con- 
trol of  the  said  board  of  health,  and  all  hospitals  so 
designated  maintained  by  any  municipal  department 
or  departments,  together  with  the  employees  of  such 
hospitals,  shall  upon  such  designation  by  the  board  of 
health   and  approval  of  the  board  of  estimate  and  ap- 


146  Appendix 

portionment,  granted  after  a  public  hearing,  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  board  of  healtn  and  the  control  and  main- 
tenance thereof  shall  thereafter  be  vested  in  the  board 
of  health;  provided,  however,  that  the  said  board  of 
health,  with  the  concurrence  in  writing  of  the  department 
or  departments  thereby  affected,  may  from  time  to  time 
designate  a  hospital  for  the  treatment  of  an  infectious 
disease,  other  than  Asiatic  cholera,  plague,  typhus  fever, 
scarlet  fever,  yellow  fever,  measles,  diphtheria  and  small- 
pox, under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  board  of  health  as  one 
which  may,  without  danger  to  the  public  health,  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  jurisdiction  of  other  municipal  authorities 
authorized  by  law  to  establish  or  maintain  public  hos- 
pitals, and  such  designation,  if  approved  by  the  board 
of  estimate  and  apportionment,  after  a  public  hearing, 
shall  take  effect,  and  the  hospital  so  designated,  together 
with  the  employees  of  such  hospital,  shall  thereupon  be 
transferred  to  such  other  municipal  authorities  as  are 
designated,  and  the  duty  of  maintaining  such  hospitals 
shall  thereupon  vest  in  such  other  municipal  authorities. 
Any  municipal  authority  or  hospital  corporation  main- 
taining a  hospital  or  ward  for  the  treatment  of  persons 
having  a  contagious  or  infectious  disease  may  admit  to 
such  hospital  or  ward  any  person  applying  for  admission 
thereto,  and  certified  by  the  physicians  of  the  said  hospi- 
tal to  have  the  disease  for  which  the  said  hospital  or  ward 
is  maintained,  and  each  such  admission  shall  be  reported 
immediately  by  such  municipal  authorities  or  hospital 
corporations  to  the  board  of  health.  The  discharge  of 
such  person  shall  also  be  reported  forthwith  to  the  board 
of  health.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  a  pestilential, 
contagious  or  infectious  disease  shall  be  one  declared  to  be 
such  by  the  board  of  health.  The  board  of  health  shall 
have  power  to  take  possession  of,  and  occupy  for  tempor- 


Appendix  I  I J 

ary  hospitals,  any  building  or  buildings  in  the  said  city, 
during  the  prevalence  of  an  epidemic,  it"  in  the  judgment 
of  the  board  the  same  may  be  required,  and  shall  pay  for 
private  property  so  taken  a  just  compensation  for  the 
same.  Said  board  may  cause  proper  care  and  attendance 
to  be  given  to  persons  sick  or  removed,  when  it  shall  be 
made  to  appear  to  the  said  board  that  any  such  person 
is  so  poor  as  to  be  unable  to  procure  for  himself  such 
care  and  attendance,  or  that  the  public  health  requires 
special  medical  care  and  attendance.  The  board  of 
health  may  send  to  such  place  as  it  may  direct,  all  aliens 
and  other  persons  in  the  city,  not  residents  thereof,  who 
shall  be  sick  of  any  infectious,  pestilential,  or  contagious 
disease.  The  expense  of  the  support  of  such  aliens  or 
other  persons  shall  be  defrayed  by  the  corporation  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  unless  such  aliens  or  other  persons 
shall  be  entitled  to  support  from  the  commissioners  of 
emigration.  No  person  shall  remove  any  person  sick 
with  infectious,  contagious  or  pestilential  disease  from 
any  vessel  or  other  place  in  said  city  without  a  written 
permit  from  the  board  of  health.  (As  amended  by 
L.  1909,  ch.  342.) 

Sec.  1171.  repairs  of  buildings. — The  powers  of 
the  board  of  health  shall  be  construed  to  include  the 
ordering  and  enforcing  in  the  same  manner  as  other 
orders  are  provided  to  be  enforced,  the  repairs  of  build- 
ings, houses,  and  other  structures;  the  regulation  and 
control  of  all  public  markets  (so  far  as  relates  to  the 
cleanliness,  ventilation  and  drainage  thereof,  and  to  the 
prevention  of  the  sale,  or  offering  for  sale,  of  improper 
articles  therein);  the  removal  of  any  obstruction,  matter 
or  thing  in  or  upon  the  public  streets,  sidewalks  or  places 
which  shall  be  in  its  opinion  liable  to  lead  to  results 
dangerous  to  life  and  health;    the  prevention  of  accidents 


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by  which  life  or  health  may  be  endangered;  and  generally 
the  abating  of  all  nuisances.  It  is  hereby  expressly 
declared  that  the  said  board  of  health  shall  have  and 
possess  full  and  complete  power  with  reference  to  the 
ventilation,  drainage  and  cleanliness  of  the  stands  or 
stalls  in  or  around  all  markets,  and  said  board  shall 
have  in  said  city  all  common-law  rights  to  abate  any 
nuisance  without  suit,  which  can  or  does  in  this  state 
belong  to  any  person  whatever.  (L.  1882,  ch.  410, 
Sec.  538.) 

Sec.  1172.  sanitary  code. — The  sanitary  code  which 
shall  be  in  force  in  The  City  of  New  York  the  first  day 
of  January,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  all  existing 
provisions  of  law  fixing  penalties  for  violations  of  said 
code  are  hereby  declared  to  be  binding  and  in  force  in 
The  City  of  New  York,  and  shall  continue  to  be  so  bind- 
ing and  in  force,  except  as  the  same  may,  from  time  to 
time,  be  revised,  altered,  amended,  or  annulled  as  herein 
provided.  Provided,  however,  that  so  much  of  this 
section  as  declares  the  sanitary  code  binding  and  in  force 
in  The  City  of  New  York  shall  not  be  construed  as 
limiting  the  storage  of  fertilizers  or  the  keeping  and 
slaughtering  of  fowls,  cattle  and  other  domestic  animals 
upon  premises  used  for  farming  in  unimproved  sections 
of  the  city,  or  as  forbidding  the  ordinary  use  of  country 
roads  in  driving  such  fowls,  cattle  and  other  domestic 
animals.  Said  board  of  health  is  hereby  authorized 
and  empowered,  from  time  to  time,  to  add  to  and  to  alter, 
amend  or  annul  any  part  of  the  said  sanitary  code  and  may 
therein  publish  additional  provisions  for  the  security  of 
life  and  health  in  The  City  of  New  York,  and  confer 
additional  powers  on  the  department  of  health,  not 
inconsistent  with  the  constitution  or  laws  of  this  state, 
and  may  provide  for  the  enforcement  of  the  said  sani- 


Appendix  1 19 

tary  code  by  such  fines,  penalties,  forfeitures,  or  im] 
ment  as  may  by  ordinance  be  prescribed.  The  board  of 
health  may  embrace  in  said  sanitary  code  all  matters 
and  subjects  to  which,  and  so  far  as,  the  power  and 
authority  of  said  department  of  health  extends,  not 
limiting  their  application  to  the  subject  of  health  only. 
Any  violation  of  said  sanitary  code  shall  be  treated  and 
punished  as  a  misdemeanor.  Pecuniary  penalties  for 
violation  of  said  sanitary  code  may  be  recovered  in  a  civil 
action  in  the  name  of  the  department  of  health  of  The  City 
>of  New  York,  before  any  justice  or  tribunal  in  said  city, 
having  jurisdiction  of  civil  actions;  and  all  such  justices 
jand  tribunals  shall  take  jurisdiction  of  such  action. 
Copies  of  the  records  of  the  proceedings  of  said  board 
of  health,  of  its  rules,  regulations,  by-laws  and  books  and 
papers  constituting  part  of  its  archives,  now  or  here- 
after in  force  in  said  city,  when  authenticated  by  its 
secretary  or  secretary  pro  tempore,  shall  be  presumptive 
evidence,  and  the  authentication  taken  as  presumptively 
correct  in  any  court  of  justice,  or  judicial  proceeding, 
when  they  may  be  relevant  to  the  point  or  matter  in 
controversy,  of  the  facts,  statements  and  recitals,  therein 
contained.  The  sanitary  code  which  is  in  force  May 
first,  nineteen  hundred  and  four,  shall  constitute  a  chapter 
of  the  code  of  ordinances  of  The  City  of  New  York. 
On  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  May,  nineteen  hundred 
and  four,  the  secretary  of  the  said  board  of  health  shall 
file  with  the  city  clerk  such  sanitary  code,  wrhich  filing 
of  the  same  it  shall  become  a  general  ordinance  of  The 
|  City  of  New  York.  No  amendment  to  said  code  adopted 
by  the  board  of  health  subsequent  to  May  first,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  four,  shall  become  valid  and  effectual 
until  a  copy  of  such  amendment,  duly  certified  to  be  a 
correct  copy  by  the  secretary  of   the  board   of  health, 


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be  filed  with  the  city  clerk.  Upon  so  filing,  such  amend- 
ment shall  become  a  part  of  said  sanitary  code.  (As 
amended  by  L.  1904,  ch.  628,  Sec.  3.) 

Sec.  1173.  judicial  notice  of  seal  and  presumptions. 
— The  actions,  proceedings,  authority  and  orders  of 
said  board  of  health  shall  at  all  times  be  regarded  as 
in  their  nature  judicial,  and  be  treated  as  prima  facie 
just  and  legal.  All  meetings  of  said  board  shall  in  every 
suit  and  proceeding  be  taken  to  have  been  duly  called 
and  regularly  held,  and  all  orders  and  proceedings  to  have 
been  duly  authorized,  unless  the  contrary  be  proved. 
All  courts  shall  take  judicial  notice  of  the  seal  of  said 
board  and  of  the  signature  of  its  secretary  and  chief 
clerk.      (L.  1882,  ch.  410,  Sec.  620.) 

Sec.  1174.  seal. — The  board  of  health  may  design 
and  adopt  a  seal,  and  use  the  same  in  the  authentication 
of  its  orders  and  proceedings,  commissioning  its  officers 
and  agents,  and  otherwise,  as  the  rules  of  the  board 
may  provide.  Said  board  may  enact  such  by-laws,  rules 
and  regulations  as  it  may  deem  advisable,  in  harmony 
with  the  provisions  and  purposes  of  this  chapter,  and  not 
inconsistent  with  the  constitution  or  laws  of  this  state, 
for  the  regulation  of  the  action  of  said  board,  its  officers 
and  agents,  in  the  discharge  of  its  and  their  duties,  and 
from  time  to  time  may  alter,  annul  or  amend  the  same. 
(L.  1882,  ch.  410,  Sec.  584.) 

Sec.  1176.  proceedings  relative  to  dangerous  build- 
ings, vessels,  places  and  things. — Whenever  any  build- 
ing, erection,  excavation,  premises,  business  pursuit, 
matter  or  thing,  or  the  sewerage,  drainage  or  ventilation 
thereof,  in  said  city,  shall,  in  the  opinion  of  said  board, 
whether  as  a  whole  or  in  any  particular,  be  in  a  condition 
or  in  effect  dangerous  to  life  or  health,  said  board  may 
take  and  file  among  its  records  what  it  shall  regard  as 


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ttfficient  proof  to  authorize  its  declaration  that  the  same, 
to  the  extent  it  may  specify,  is  a  public  nuisani 
langerous  to  life  or  health;  and  said  board  may  ther< 
later  in  its  records  the  same  as  a  nuisance,  and  order 
the  same  to  be  removed,  abated,  suspended,  all 
or  otherwise  improved  or  purified,  as  said  order  shall 
specify;  and  if  any  party  served  with  such  order  (or 
intended  to  be  according  to  tlvs  chapter)  shall,  before 
its  execution  is  commenced,  or  within  three  days  after 
such  service  or  attempted  service,  apply  to  said  board, 
or  the  president  thereof,  to  have  said  order  or  its 
execution  stayed  or  modified,  it  shall  then  be  the 
duty  of  said  board  to  temporarily  suspend  or 
modify  said  order  or  the  execution  thereof,  save 
in  cases  of  imminent  danger  from  impending 
pestilence,  when  said  board  may  exercise  extraordinary 
powers,  as  herein  elsewhere  specified,  and  to  give  such 
party  or  parties  together,  as  the  case  in  the  opinion  of 
the  board  may  require,  a  reasonable  and  fair  opportunity 
to  be  heard  before  said  board  and  to  present  facts  and 
proofs,  according  to  the  rules  or  directions  of  said  board, 
against  said  declaration  and  the  execution  of  said  order, 
or  in  favor  of  its  modification,  according  to  the  regula- 
tions of  the  board;  and  the  board  shall  enter  in  its 
minutes  such  facts  and  proofs  as  it  may  receive  and  its 
proceedings  on  such  bearing,  and  any  other  proof  it 
may  take;  and  thereafter  may  rescind,  modify  or  re- 
affirm its  said  declaration  and  order,  and  require  execution 
of  said  original,  or  of  a  new  or  modified  order  to  be  made 
in  such  form  and  effect  as  it  may  finally  determine. 
Said  board  may  order  or  cause  any  excavation,  erection, 
vehicle,  vessel,  water  craft,  room,  building,  place,  sewer, 
pipe,  passage,  premises,  ground,  matter  or  thing  in  said 
city  or  adjacent  waters,  regarded  by  said  board  as  in  a 


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condition  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life  or  health,  to 
be  purified,  cleaned,  disinfected,  altered  or  improved; 
and  may  also  order  any  substance,  matter  or  thing  being 
or  left  in  any  street,  alley,  water,  excavation,  building, 
erection,  place  or  grounds  (whether  such  place,  where 
the  same  may  be,  is  public  or  private)  and  which  said 
board  may  regard  as  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life 
or  health,  to  be  speedily  removed  to  some  proper  place 
and  may  designate  or  provide  a  place  to  which  the  same 
shall  be  removed,  when  no  such  adequate  or  proper  place, 
in  the  judgment  of  said  board,  is  already  provided.  If 
said  order  is  not  complied  with,  or  as  far  complied  with 
as  said  board  of  health  may  regard  as  reasonable,  within 
five  days  after  such  service  or  attempted  service,  or  within 
any  shorter  time,  which,  in  case  of  pestilence,  the  board 
of  health  may  have  designated,  or  is  not  thereafter 
speedily  and  fully  executed,  then  any  such  order  may  be 
executed  as  herein  elsewhere  provided  in  regard  to  any 
of  the  orders  of  said  board.  And  if  personal  service  of 
any  aforesaid  order  cannot  be  made  under  this  section 
by  reason  of  absence  from  said  district,  or  inability  to 
find  one  or  more  of  the  owners,  occupants,  lessees  or 
tenants  of  the  subject  matter  to  which  said  order  relates, 
or  one  or  more  of  the  persons  whose  duty  it  was  to  have 
done  what  is  therein  required  to  be  done,  as  the  case  may 
render  just  and  proper  in  the  opinion  of  said  board;  to 
be  shown  by  the  official  certificates  of  the  officer  having 
such  order  to  serve,  then  service  may  be  made  through 
the  mail,  or  by  a  copy  left  at  the  residence  or  place  of 
business  of  the  person  sought  to  be  served,  with  a  person 
of  suitable  age  and  discretion,  and  the  expenses  attending 
the  execution  of  any  and  all  such  orders  respectively 
shall  be  a  several  and  joint  personal  charge  against  each 
of  the  owners  or  part  owners,  and  each  of  the  lessees  and 


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occupants  of  the  building,  business,  place,  property, 
matter  or  thing  to  which  said  order  relates,  and  in  respect 
of  which  said  expenses  were  incurred;  and  also  against 
every  person  or  body  who  was  by  law  or  contract  bound 
to  do  that  in  relation  to  such  business,  place,  street, 
property,  matter  or  thing,  which  said  order  requires,  and 
said  expenses  shall  also  be  a  lien  on  all  rent,  compensa- 
tion due  or  to  grow  due,  for  the  use  of  any  place,  room, 
building,  premises,  matter  or  thing  to  which  said  order 
relates;  and  in  respect  of  which  said  expenses  were  in- 
curred; and  also,  a  lien  on  all  compensation  due  or  to 
grow  due  from  the  cleaning  of  any  street,  place,  ground 
or  thing,  or  for  the  cleansing  or  removal  of  any  matter, 
thing  or  place,  the  failure  to  do  which  by  the  party  bound 
so  to  do,  or  the  doing  of  the  same  in  whole  or  in  part  by 
order  of  said  board,  was  the  cause  or  occasion  of  any  such 
order  or  expense.  Said  board  of  health,  its  assignee  or 
the  party  who  has,  under  its  order  or  that  of  the  police 
board,  acting  thereunder,  incurred  said  expense,  or  has 
rendered  service  for  which  payment  is  due,  and  as  the  rules 
of  said  board  of  health  may  provide,  may  institute 
and  maintain  a  suit  against  any  one  herein  declared  liable 
for  expenses  as  aforesaid  or  against  any  person,  firm  or 
corporation,  owing,  or  who  may  owe,  such  rent  or  com- 
pensation, and  may  recover  the  expenses  so  incurred  under 
any  order  aforesaid.  (L.  1882,  ch.  410,  Sees.  535,  578, 
630,  631.) 

Sec.  1178.  declaration  of  imminent  peril. — In  the 
presence  of  great  and  imminent  peril  to  the  public  health 
by  reason  of  impending  pestilence,  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  board  of  health,  having  first  taken  and  filed 
among  its  records  what  it  shall  regard  as  sufficient  proof 
to  authorize  its  declaration  of  such  peril,  and  having  duly 
entered  the  same  in  its  records,  to  take  such  measures, 


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and  to  do  and  order,  and  cause  to  be  done,  such  acts  and 
make  such  expenditures  (beyond  those  duly  estimated 
for  or  provided)  for  the  preservation  of  the  public  health 
(though  not  herein  elsewhere  or  otherwise  authorized) 
as  it  may  in  good  faith  declare  the  public  safety  and 
health  to  demand,  and  the  mayor  shall  in  writing  approve. 
But  the  exercise  of  this  extraordinary  power  shall  also, 
so  far  as  it  involves  such  excessive  expenditures,  require 
the  written  consent  of  at  least  two  members  of  the  board 
of  health,  and  the  approval  as  aforesaid  of  the  mayor. 
And  such  peril  shall  not  be  deemed  to  exist  except  when, 
and  for  such  period  of  time,  as  the  board  of  health  and 
mayor  shall  declare.      (L.  1882,  ch.  410,  Sec.  580.) 

Sec.  1202.  police  department  Assistance.  —  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  police  department  and  of  its  officers 
and  men,  as  said  department  shall  direct,  to  promptly  I 
advise  the  department  of  health  of  all  threatening  dangers 
to  human  life  or  health,  and  of  all  matters  thought  to 
demand  its  attention,  and  to  regularly  report  to  said  board 
of  health  all  violations  of  its  rules,  and  of  sanitary  or- 
dinances, and  of  the  health  laws,  and  all  useful  sanitary 
information.  And  said  last-named  departments  shall, 
as  far  as  practicable  and  appropriate,  co-operate  for  thei 
promotion  of  the  public  health  and  the  safety  of  human 
life  in  the  city.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police 
department  and  the  police  commissioner,  by  and  through 
its  proper  officers,  agents  and  men,  to  faithfully  and 
at  the  proper  time,  enforce  and  execute  the  sanitary 
rules  and  regulations  and  the  orders  of  said  board  of 
health,  made  pursuant  to  the  powers  of  said  board  of 
health,  upon  the  same  being  received  in  writing  and 
duly  authenticated,  as  said  board  of  health  may  direct. 
And  said  police  commissioner  is  authorized  to  employ 
appropriate  persons  and  means,  and  to  make  the  neces- 


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fcry    and    appropriate    expenditures,    for    the    execution 
and  enforcement   of  said   rule  .  and   regulations; 

and  such  expenditures,  so  far  as  the  same  may  not  be 
refunded  or  compensated  by  the  means  herein  elsewhere 
Provided,  shall  be  paid  as  the  other  expenses  of  said 
board  of  health  are  paid.  And  in  and  about  the 
■on  of  any  order  of  the  board  of  health  «>r  of  the  police 
commissioner,  made  pursuant  thereto,  police  officers  and 
policemen  shall  have  as  ample  power  and  authority  as 
when  obeying  any  order  of  or  law  applicable  to  the  police 
commissioner,  but  for  their  conduct  shall  be  responsible 
to  the  police  commissioner  and  not  to  the  board  of 
health.      (L.  1882,  ch.  410,  Sec.  594. 

Sec.  1210.  putrid  cargoes  may  be  destroyed. — The 
board  of  health,  when  it  shall  judge  it  necessary,  may 
cause  any  cargo,  or  part  of  cargo,  or  any  matter,  or  any 
thing  within  the  city  that  may  be  putrid  or  otherwise 
dangerous  to  the  public  health,  to  be  destroyed  or  re- 
moved; such  removal,  when  ordered,  shall  be  to  the  place 
of  deposit  of  offal,  dead  animals,  and  refuse  matter,  or 
such  other  place  as  the  board  of  health  shall  direct; 
such  removal  or  destruction  shall  be  made  at  the  expense 
of  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  property  so  removed  or 
destroyed,  and  the  same  may  be  recovered  from  such 
owner  or  owners,  in  an  action  at  law,  by  said  board  of 
health.      (L.  1S82,  ch.  410,  Sec.  541.) 

Sec.  1222.  violation  of  orders,  punishment  for. — 
Every  person  who  shall  violate,  or  neglect,  or  refuse  to 
comply  with  any  provision  contained  in  any  of  the  last 
i  three  sections,  or  in  the  orders  made  by  the  board  of 
health,  in  pursuance  thereof,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  not  exceeding  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,   or  imprisonment   not   exceeding  six   months,   or 


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both;  and  all  such  fines  when  collected  shall  be  paid  to 
the  comptroller.  Any  violation  of  the  sanitary  code 
shall  be  treated  and  punished  as  a  misdemeanor,  and  the 
offender  shall  also  be  liable  to  pay  a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars, 
to  be  recovered  in  a  civil  action  in  the  name  of  the 
department  of  health  of  The  City  of  New  York.  (L. 
18S2,  ch.  410,  vSec.  543.) 

Sec.  1262.  violation  of  department  orders,  actions  for. 
— Whoever  shall  violate  any  provisions  of  this  chapter, 
or  any  order  of  said  department  made  under  the  authority 
of  the  same,  or  by  any  law  or  ordinance  therein  referred 
to,  or  shall  obstruct  or  interfere  with  any  person  in  the 
execution  of  any  order  of  the  said  department,  or  any 
order  of  the  police  department  in  pursuance  or  execu- 
tion of  the  orders  of  the  department  of  health,  or  wil- 
fully omit  to  obey  any  such  order,  shall  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  be  liable  to  be  indicted  and  punished 
for  such  offense;  and  in  cases  where  it  was  made  a  mis- 
demeanor to  do  or  omit  any  act  or  thing,  when  in  the  power 
or  authority  hereby  conferred  upon  the  board  of  health, 
or  department  of  health,  was  exercised  by  any  other 
board  of  health,  or  officers,  the  omission  or  doing  of  such, 
or  a  corresponding  act  or  thing,  which  this  chapter 
requires,  or  contemplates  to  be  done  or  forbids,  shall 
in  like  manner  be  a  misdemeanor,  and  the  offender  shall 
be  liable  to  indictment  and  punishment  for  same.  A 
wilful  omission  or  refusal  of  any  individual,  corporation, 
or  body  to  conform  to  any  regulation  of  said  department 
duly  made  for  the  protection  of  life  or  the  care,  promotion, 
or  preservation  of  health,  or  the  carrying  out  of  the  pur- 
poses of  this  chapter,  pursuant  to  its  power  or  authority, 
shall  be  a  misdemeanor,  and  the  person  or  officers  guilty 
thereof  shall  be  liaole  to  indictment  and  punishment  as 
for   a  misdemeanor.       All  prosecutions  and  proceedings 


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against  any  person  for  mi  r  under  this  chapter 

may  be  had  or  tried  before  any  jduge  or  tribunal  having 
jurisdiction  of  any  misdemeanor  within  Any 

person,  corporation,  <»r  body  which  may  have  wilfully 
done  or  omitted  any  act  or  thing  which  is,  in  this  chapter, 
or  by  any  law  or  ordinance,  or  the  sanit:  r 
to,  declared  to  be,  or  to  subject  the  party  guilty  I 
to  punishment  for  a  misdemeanor,  shall  in  addition 
thereto,  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,  to  be  sued  for  and  recovered  by  said  department 
in  any  civil  tribunal  in  said  city.  Where  in  any  case 
the  minimum  penalty  for  a  refusal  to  obey,  or  for  a 
violation  of  any  order,  regulation,  or  ordinance  of  said 
department  of  health,  or  any  law,  is  not  fixed,  the  amount 
recovered  in  such  case  shall  not  be  less  than  twenty 
dollars,  and  the  judge  or  justice  who  presided  at  a  trial 
where  such  penalty  is  claimed  shall,  on  said  trial,  in 
writing,  fix  the  amount,  not  contrary  to  said  provisions, 
of  said  penalty  to  be  recovered,  and  shall  direct  such 
amount  so  fixed  to  be,  and  it  shall  be  included  in  the 
judgment.  Any  such  suit  may  be  against  one  or  more, 
or  all  of  those  who  participate  in  the  act,  refusals,  or 
omissions  complained  of,  and  the  recovery  may  be  against 
one  or  more  of  those  joined  in  the  action  as  the  justice 
of  the  court  shall  direct.  The  provisions  of  this  section 
as  to  the  jurisdiction  of  tribunals,  parties,  and  costs 
shall  apply  to  all  suits  by  said  department  or  by  the  police 
department  under  this  chapter.  All  processes  and 
papers  usual  or  necessary  in  the  commencement  and  prose- 
cution of  actions,  or  for  the  collection  of  money  in  suits 
or  proceedings  under  this  chapter,  on  execution,  may  be 
served  by  any  policeman,  and  in  and  about  such  matters 
the  policeman  so  engaged  shall  have  all  the  pov 
marshals,  and  no  fees  shall  be  charged    by  any   court, 


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magistrate,  or  clerk  for  the  issue  of  any  paper  or  process,  or 
the  performance  of  any  duty  in  suits  under  this  chapter. 
Any  civil  action  brought  under  or  by  authority  of  this 
chapter  may  be  brought  in  any  court  in  said  city,  having 
jurisdiction  in  any  civil  action  to  an  amount  as  large 
as  is  demanded  in  such  action;  and  if  judgment  be 
rendered  for  the  plaintiff  in  any  amount,  costs  of  the  court 
in  which  action  is  brought  shall  also  be  recovered,  without 
reference  to  the  amount  of  the  recovery,  provided  payment 
was  demanded  before  suit  brought,  and  the  defendant 
or  defendants,  in  the  action  against  whom  the  recovery 
is  had,  did  not,  as  the  code  of  civil  procedure  authorizes, 
offer  to  pay  an  amount  equal  to  the  recovery  against 
him  or  them,  except  that  in  cases  where  the  recovery 
shall  be  less  than  fifty  dollars,  the  amount  of  costs  shall 
be  ten  dollars;  and  in  case  no  recovery  is  had,  the  plain- 
tiffs shall  not  pay  costs  unless  the  judge  or  justice,  at 
the  conclusion  of  the  trial,  shall  certify  in  writing  that 
there  was  not  reasonable  cause  for  bringing  the  action, 
and  in  such  case  the  costs  shall  not  exceed  ten  dollars, 
unless  the  amount  claimed  exceeded  fifty  dollars.  No 
action  shall  abate,  or  right  of  action  already  accrued  be 
abolished,  by  reason  of  the  expiration,  repeal  or  amend- 
ment- of  an  ordinance,  code  or  sanitary  ordinances,  or 
regulation  of  said  department;  nor  shall  any  court  lose 
jurisdiction  of  any  action  by  reason  of  a  plea  that  title 
to  real  estate  is  involved,  provided  the  defendant  is 
sought  b}^  the  pleadings  to  be  charged  in  said  action  on 
any  of  the  grounds  mentioned  in  this  chapter,  other 
than  by  virtue  of  ownership  of  such  real  estate.  In 
respect  to  all  proofs  and  proceedings  by  said  department, 
or  its  agent  or  officers,  under  this  chapter,  papers  filed 
shall  be  deemed  entered  upon  or  in  the  minutes  of  the 
department. 


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Sec.  1299.     infected   and    uninhabitable   houses   to   be 
condemned    by    board    of    health.      Whenever 
be  certified  to  the  board  of  health  of  Tl 
York   by    the   sanitary   superintendent 
sanitary  superintendent    that   any  building  or  any   part 
thereof  in  The  City  of  New  York  is  infected  with  con- 
tagious disease,  or  by  reason  of  want   of  repair  1 
come  dangerous  to  life,  or  is  unfit  for  human  habitation 
because  of  defects  in   drainage,    plumbing,    ventil 
or  the  construction  of  the  same,  or  because  of  th- 
ence of  a  nuisance  on  tlv  ich  is  likely  to 
cause  sickness  among  its  occupants,   the   said   b<  . 
health  may  issue  an  order  requiring  all   persons  therein 
to  vacate  such  building  or  part  thereof  for  the  n 
to   be   stated   therein   as   aforesaid.       Said    board    shall 
cause  said  order  to  be  affixed  conspicuously  in  the  building 
or  part  thereof  and  to  be  personally  served  on  the  owner, 
lessee,  agent,  occupant,  or  any  person  having  the  charge 
or  care  thereof;    if  the  owner,  lessee  or  agent  cam 
found  in  The  City  of  New  York  or  does  not  reside  therein, 
or  evades  or  resists  service,  then  said  order  may  be 
by  depositing  a  copy  thereof  in  the  post-office  in  The 
City  of  New  York,  properly  enclosed  and.  addressed  to 
such  owner,  lessee  or  agent  at  his  last  known  place  of 
business  and  residence,  and  prepaying  the  postage  t! 
such  building  or  part  thereof  shall,  within  ten 
said  order  shall  have  been  posted  and  mailed  a 
or  within   such  shorter  time,  not  less  than   twenty-four 
hours,  as  in  said  order  ma;  I,  bul 
said  board  of  health,  whenever  it  shall  become  satisfied 
that  the  danger  from  said  building  or  part   then 
ceased  to  exist,  or  that  said  building  lias  been  repair* 
to  be  habitable,  may  revoke  said  order.     (L.  1882,      ,  HO, 
vSec.  659;   L.  1887,  eh.  04;   L.  1897,  eh.  37^;    See.  1 


APPENDIX 

PROVISIONS    OF   THE 

LABOR     LAW 

OF   THE   STATE    OF   NEW  YORK 

ARTICLE   8 

AND    OTHER   LAWS  RELATING   TO 

BAKERIES  and  CONFECTIONERIES 


Sec.  110.     Enforcement  of  article. 

Sec.  111.     Definitions. 

Sec.  112.     General  requirements. 

Sec.  113.     Maintenance. 

Sec.  113-a.  Prohibited  employment  of  diseased  bakers. 

Sec.  114.     Inspection  of  bakeries. 

Sec.  115.     Sanitary  certificates. 

Sec.  116.     Prohibition  of  future  cellar  bakeries. 

Sec.  117.     Sanitary  code  for  bakeries  and  confectioneries. 

Penal   Law.     Sec.    1275. — Violations   of   provisions   of 
Labor  Law. 

(Amended  by   Laws    1911,    ch.   637;     Laws    1913,   ch. 
163.      In  effect  May  9,  1913.) 


Appendix  im 

Sec.  110.     Enforcement    of     Article.-    hi     . 
of    the    first    class    the    health    department     of    BUCh    city 
shall  have  exclusive  jurisdiction  to  infer. 

of   this  article.       In   the  application  of  any 

of  this  article   to  any  city  of  the  first  class,   the 
"commission  of  labor"   or   "department  of  labor"   shall 
be  understood  to  mean   the  health  department    <  | 
city.       (Amended   by   Laws    1913,    eh.    463.       In 
May  9,  1913.) 

Sec.  111.     Definitions. — All  buildings,  rooms  or  • 
used  or  occupied  for  the  purpose  of  making,  preparing 
or    baking    bread,    biscuits,    pastry,    cakes,    doughnuts, 
crullers,  noodles,   macaroni  or  spaghetti   to    be    sold    or 
consumed   on   or   off   the   premises,    except   kitchens    in 
hotels,  restaurants,  boarding  houses  or  private  res- 
wherein  such  products  are  prepared  to  be  used  ai 
used  exclusively  on  the  premises,  shall  for  the  purpi  se 
of  this  article  be  deemed  bakeries.      The  commi 
of  labor  shall  have  the  same  powers  with  respect  to  the 
machinery,    safety    devices    and    sanitary    conditions    in 
hotel  bakeries  that  he  has  with  respect  thereto  in  bakeries 
as  defined  by  this  chapter.      In  cities  of  the  first  cla 
health  department's  jurisdiction  over  hotel  bakerie 
not  extend  to  the  machinery  safety  devices  and   hours 
of  labor  of  employees  therein.       The  term  cellar 
used  in  this  article  shall  mean  a  room  or  a  part  of  a  build- 
ing which  is  more  than  one-half  its  height  below  t ! 
of  the  curb  or  ground  adjoining  the  building  (excluding 
arcaways).      The  term  owner  as  used  in  this  article 
be  construed  to  mean  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  fr< 
of  the   premises,    or   the  lessee   or   joint  of   the 

whole  thereof,  or  his,  or  her  or  their  agent  in  clo- 
the  property.       The   term   occupier   shall    be   construed 
to  mean  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  in  actual 


162  Appendix 

of  the  premises,  who  either  himself  makes,  prepares  or 
bakes  any  of  the  articles  mentioned  in  this  section,  or 
hires  or  employs  others  to  do  it  for  him.  Bakeries  are 
factories  within  the  meaning  of  this  chapter,  and  subject 
to  all  the  provisions  of  article  six  hereof.  (Amended  by 
Laws  1911,  ch.  637;  Laws  1913,  ch.  463.  In  effect 
May  9,  1913.) 

Sec.  112.  General  Requirements. — All  bakeries  shall 
be  provided  with  proper  and  sufficient  drainage  and 
with  suitable  sinks,  supplied  with  clean  running  water 
for  the  purpose  of  washing  and  keeping  clean  the  utensils 
and  apparatus  used  therein.  All  bakeries  shall  be  pro- 
vided with  proper  and  adequate  windows,  and  if  required 
by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  industrial  board,  with 
ventilating  hoods  and  pipes  over  ovens  and  ashpits,  or 
with  other  mechanical  means,  to  so  ventilate  same  as  to 
render  harmless  to  the  persons  working  therein  any  steam, 
gases,  vapors,  dust,  excessive  heat  or  any  impurities  that 
may  be  generated  or  released  by  or  in  the  process  of 
making,  preparing  or  baking  in  said  bakeries.  Every 
bakery  shall  be  at  least  eight  feet  in  height  measured 
from  the  surface  of  the  finished  floor  to  the  under  side 
of  the  ceiling,  and  shall  have  a  flooring  of  even,  smooth 
cement,  or  of  tiles  laid  in  cement,  or  a  wooden  floor,  so 
laid  and  constructed  as  to  be  free  from  cracks,  holes  and 
interstices,  except  that  any  cellar  or  basement  less  than 
eight  feet  in  height  which  was  used  for  a  bakery  on  the 
second  day  of  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-five, 
need  not  be  altered  to  conform  to  this  provision  with 
respect  to  height;  the  side  walls  and  ceiling  shall  be 
either  plastered,  ceiled  or  wainscoted.  Every  bakery 
shall  be  provided  with  a  sufficient  number  of  water-closets, 
and  such  water-closets  shall  be  separate  and  apart  from 
and  unconnected '  with   the  bakeroom  or    rooms    when. 


Appendix  i.,.; 

Bod   products  arc  stored  or  sold.  !. 

■ill,  ch.  637;     Lav.      L913,     :  .    163.       In  i r 
B13.) 

Sec.  Ll3.     Maintenance.— All      floors,      wall 
■lelves,    furniture,'   utensils,    .  lumb- 

Irains  and  sewers,   in   or  in  connection   with 
or    in    bakery    water-closets    and    washroon 
rooms    where    raw    materials  in    rooms 

where    the    manufactured    product    is    stored,    shall    at 
all   times   be  kept   in   good   repair,   and   maintained   in  a 
Bean  and  sanitary  condition,  free  from  all  kinds  i 
min.      All  interior  woodwork,  walls  and  ceiling  shall  be 
foainted  or  limewashed  once  even,-  three  months,  where 
So    required    by    the    commissioner    of    labor.        1 
sanitary    receptacles    shall    be    provided    and    used    for 
storing   coal,    ashes,    refuse   and    garbage.       Receptacles 
for  refuse  and  garbage  shall  have  their  contents  r<  I 
from  bakeries  daily  and  shall  be  maintained  in  a  clean 
and  sanitary  condition  at  all  times;    the  use 
in  any  form  in  a  bakery  or  room  where  raw  mat*  : 
manufactured  product  of  such  bakery  is  stor 
Jiibited.      No  person  shall  sleep,  or  be  permitted,  allowed 
or  suffered  to  sleep  in  a  bakery,  or  in  any  room  where  raw 
material  or  the  manufactured  product  of  such  bakery  is 
stored  or  sold,  and  no  domestic  animals  or  birds,  i 
bats,    shall    be   allowed    to   remain    in    any    such 

nical   means   of   ventilation    when    provided,    shall 
tively  used  and  operated.      Windows, 
other   openings   shall  be  provided   with    pro] 
All   employees,   while  engaged  in   the   manufactur 
handling  of  bread  shall  wear  slippers  or  shoes  and  suits 
pf  washable  material  which  shall  be  used   for  that    pur- 
pose only  and  such  garments  shall  be  kept  clean  at  all 
times.      Lockers  shall  be  provided  for  the  street  clothes 


164  Appendix 

of  the  employees.  The  furniture,  troughs  and  utensils 
shall  be  so  arranged  and  constructed  as  not  to  prevent 
their  cleaning  or  the  cleaning  of  every  part  of  the  bakery. 
(Amended  by  Laws  1911,  ch.  637;  Laws  1913,  ch.  463. 
In  effect  May  9,  1913.) 

Sec.  113-a.  Prohibited  Employment  of  Diseased  Bak- 
ers.— No  person  who  has  any  communicable  disease 
shall  work  or  be  permitted  to  work  in  a  bakery.  When- 
ever lequired  by  a  medical  inspector  of  the  department 
of  labor,  any  person  employed  in  a  bakery  shall  submit 
to  a  physical  examination  by  such  inspector.  No  per- 
son who  refuses  to  submit  to  such  examination  shall  work 
or  be  permitted  to  work  in  any  bakery.  (Inserted  byi 
Laws  1913,  ch.  463.      In  effect  May  9,  1913.) 

Sec.  114.  Inspection  of  Bakeries.  —It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  owner  of  a  building  wherein  a  bakery  is 
located  to  comply  with  all  provisions  of  section  one  hun- 
dred and  twelve  of  this  article,  and  of  the  occupier  to 
comply  with  all  the  provisions  of  section  one  hundred 
and  thirteen  of  this  article,  unless  by  the  terms  of  a  valid! 
lease  the  responsibility  for  compliance  therewith  has 
been  undertaken  by  the  other  party  to  the  lease,  and  a 
duplicate  original  lease,  containing  such  obligation,  shall 
have  been  previously  filed  in  the  office  of  the  commissioner 
of  labor,  in  which  event  the  party  assuming  the  respon-1 
sibility  shall  be  responsible  for  such  compliance.  The 
commissioner  of  labor  may,  in  his  discretion,  applyi 
any  or  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  article  to  a  factory; 
located  in  a  cellar  wherein  any  food  product  is  manu- 
factured, provided  that  basements  or  cellars  used  as 
confectionery  or  ice-cream  manufacturing  shops  shall  not) 
be  required  to  conform  to  the  requirements  as  to  height! 
of  rooms.  Such  establishment  shall  be  not  less  than,, 
seven  feet  in  height,  except  that  any  cellar  or  basement! 


Appendix  166 

so  used  before  October  first,  nineteen  hundn 
which  is  more  than  six  Eeet  in  height  need  nol 
to  conform  to  this  provision.      It'  on  insp 
missioner   of    labor   find    a    bakery   or   any    part    thereof 
to  be   so   unclean,   ill-drained   or   ill-ventilated   as   to    be 
unsanitary,  he  may,  after  not  less  than  forty-eight  hours' 
notice  in  writing,  to  be  served  by  affixing  the  notice  on 
the  inside   of   the   main   entrance  door  of  said    1 
order  the  person  found  in  charge  thereof  immediately 
to  cease  operating  it  until  it  shall  be  properly  cli 
drained   or  ventilated.       If   such   bakery   be   the: 
continued  in  operation  or  be  thereafter  operated 
it  be  properly  cleaned,  drained  or  ventilated  the  com- 
missioner of  labor  may,  after  first  making  and  filing  in 
the  public  record  of  his  office  a  written  order  stating  the 
reasons    therefor,    at    once   and    without    further    notice 
fasten  up  and  seal  the  oven  or  other  cooking  apparatus 
of  said   bakeiy,   and  affix  tc  all  materials,   receptacles, 
tools  and  instruments  found  therein,  labels  or  conspicu- 
ous signs  bearing  the  word  "unclean."      No  one  but  the 
commissioner    of    labor    shall    remove    any    such    seal, 
la^el  or  sign,  and  he  may  refuse  to  remove  it  until  such 
bakery    be    properly    cleaned,    drained     or    ventilated. 
(Amended  by  Laws  1011,  ch.  037;    Laws  1913,  cl 
In  effect  May  9,  1913.) 

Sec.  115.  Sanitary  Certifcates. — 1.  No  person,  firm 
or  corporation  shall  establish,  maintain  or  operate  a 
bakery  without  obtaining  a  sanitary  certificat 
the  department  of  labor.  Application  for  such  cer- 
tificate shall  be  made  to  the  commissioner  of 
by  the  occupier  of  the  bakery  or  by  the  person,  firm 
or  corporation  desiring  to  establish  or  conduct  such 
bakery.  The  application  for  a  sanitary  certificate  shall 
be  made  in  such  form  and  shall  contain  such  information 


166  Appendix 

as  the  commissioner  of  labor  may  require.  Blank 
applications  for  such  certificate  shall  be  prepared  and 
furnished  by  the  commissioner  of  labor. 

2.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such  application  for  a  sani- 
tary certificate,  the  commissioner  of  labor  shall  cause 
an  inspection  to  be  made  of  the  building,  room  or  place 
described  in  the  application.  If  the  bakery  conforms 
to  the  provisions  of  articles  six  and  eight  of  this  chapter 
and  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  industrial  board, 
or  in  any  city  of  the  first  class  if  the  bakery  conforms 
to  the  provisions  of  article  eight  of  this  chapter,  and  to 
the  sanitary  code  and  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
department  of  health  of  any  such  city,  the  commissioner 
of  labor  shall  issue  a  sanitary  certificate  for  such  bakery. 
Such  certificate  shall  be  for  a  period  of  one  year  and  shall 
be  renewed  annually  by  the  commissioner  of  labor, 
if  upon  reinspection  of  a  bakery  it  is  found  to  comply 
with  the  aforesaid  provisions  and  regulations.  Every 
certificate  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter 
shall  be  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  bakery 
for  which  such  certificate  is  issued. 

3.  Such  certificate  may  be  revoked  at  any  time  by 
the  commissioner  of  labor  if  the  health  of  the  com- 
munity or  of  the  employees  of  the  bakery  require  such 
action,  or  if  an  order  of  the  department  issued  under  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter  be  not  complied  with  within 
fifteen  days  after  the  service  thereof  upon  the  person, 
firm  or  corporation  charged  with  the  duty  of  complying 
with  such  order.  The  time  for  such  compliance  may  be 
extended  by  the  commissioner  of  labor  for  good  cause 
shown,  but  a  statement  of  the  reason  for  such  extension 
shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  department  of  labor 
as  part  of  the  public  records  thereof.  Nothing  contained 
in  this  subdivision  shall  be  construed  to  limit  in  any  way 


Appi  167 

the  power  of  the  commissioner  of  laboi  up  an 

unsanitary  bakery  as  provided  in   section  one  hui 

and  fourteen  of  this  chap 
\.     If    an    application 
denied    Or    if    such    certificate    '  I     by    th< 

mission er  of  Labor,  he  shall  file  in  th< 
ment  of  labor  as  part  of  the  public  records  ther 
statement  in  writing  setting  forth  in  detail  the  n 
for  such  denial  or  revocation. 

5.  Applications   for   sanitary   certifical  isting 
bakeries   shall   be  made   within   four   months   after   this 
act  takes  effect,  and  no  such  bakery  shall  be  conducted 
or    operated    without    a    sanitary    certificate    from    the 
department  of  labor  after  the  first  of  January,  nil 
hundred  and  fourteen.      In  the  case  of  bakeries  he: 
established,    the    application    for    a    sanitary    certificate 
shall  be  made  within  ten  days  after  such  bakery  shall 
commence  business,   and  no  such  bakery  shall  be 
ducted  or  operated  without  a  sanitary  certificate  for  more 
than  thirty  days  after  commencing  business. 

6.  If  a  bakery  has  no  sanitary  certificate  as  herein 
required  or  if  such  certificate  has  been  revoked,  the 
commissioner  of  labor  shall,  after  first  making  and 
filing  in  the  public  records  of  his  office  a  written 
stating  the  reasons  therefor,  at  once  and  without  further 
notice  fasten  up  and  seal  the  oven  or  other  cooking  ap- 
paratus of  said  bakery.      No  one  but   the  commi 

of  labor  or  his  duly  authorized  representative  shall 
remove  any  such  seal,  and  he  shall  not  rem*  >ve  same 
until  a  sanitary  certificate  has  been  issued  to  such  bakery. 
(Inserted  by  Laws  1013,  eh.  463.  In  effect  May  '.t. 
1913.) 

Sec.  116.      (Chapter     7(.»7,     amendment     enacted     July 
24,    1913.)       Prohibition  of  Future  Cellar  Bakeries.— No 


168  Appendix 

bakery  shall  hereafter  be  located  in  a  cellar,  and  a  sani- 
tary certificate  shall  not  be  issued  for  any  bakery  so 
located,  unless  such  bakery  shall  be  at  least  ten  feet  in 
height  measured  from  the  surface  of  the  finished  floor 
to  the  under  side  of  the  ceiling,  and  if  the  bakery  is  located 
or  intended  to  be  located  entirely  in  the  front  part  of  the 
building,  the  ceiling  of  the  bakery  shall  be  in  every  part 
at  least  four  feet  six  inches  above  the  curb  level  of  the 
street  in  front  of  the  building,  or  if  such  bakery  is  located 
or  intended  to  be  located  entirely  in  the  rear  part  of  the 
building  or  to  extend  from  the  front  to  the  rear,  the 
ceiling  of  the  bakery  shall  be  not  less  than  one  foot 
above  the  curb  level  of  the  street  in  front  of  the  build- 
ing and  the  bakery  shall  open  upon  a  yard  or  courts 
which  shall  extend  at  least  six  inches  below  the  floor 
level  of  the  bakery,  nor  unless  proper  and  adequate  pro- 
visions shall  be  made  for  the  lighting  and  ventilation  of 
such  bakery  and  for  the  proper  construction  of  the  floor, 
walls  and  ceiling  thereof,  and  plans  and  specifications 
for  the  construction  and  establishment  of  such  bakery, 
in  such  form  and  covering  such  matters  as  the  com- 
missioner of  labor  may  require,  shall  have  been 
first  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  commissioner 
of  labor.  This  prohibition  shall  not  apply  to  a  cellar 
used  and  operated  as  a  bakery  at  any  time  within  one 
year  prior  to  the  date  of  the  passage  of  this  act,  provided 
that  satisfactory  proof  of  its  use  as  a  bakery  as  herein 
specified  be  furnished  to  the  commissioner  of  labor  in 
such  form  as  he  may  require  within  six  months  after 
this  act  shall  take  effect,  nor  shall  it  apply  to  the  cellar 
of  a  building  in  the  course  of  construction  on  the  ninth 
day  of  May,  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen,  nor  to  the 
cellar  of  a  building^  the  construction  of  which  was  com- 
menced after  the  first  day  of  January,  nineteen  hundred 


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and  thirteen,  and  completed  on  or  befon    th<    oil  tl 

pf   May,   nineteen  hundred  and   thu  I   that 

siK-li  cellar  be  used  and  operated  as  a  bakery  at  any 

prior  to  the  first  day  of  January,  nineteen  hiindr- 
fourteen,  and  that  satisfactory  proof  of  the  time  i 
construction  of  such  building  and  of  the  use  of  the 
as  a  bakery  as  herein  specified  he  furnished  to 

missioner  of  labor,  in  such  form  as  he  may  requii 
or  before  the  twenty-eighth  day  of  February,  nil 

hundred  and  fourteen.      Upon  receipt  of  such  proof  the 
commissioner  of   labor   shall   issue  to  the  owner  of    the 
building  in  which  such  cellar  is  located  a  certifier 
exemption.       This   section   shall   not   prevent   the 
health  authorities  in  any  city  of  the  first  class  from  exer- 
cising any  power  of  regulation  now  vested  in  them. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Sec.  117.  Sanitary  Code  for  Bakeries  and  Confection- 
eries.— All  factories  wherein  any  food  product  is  manu- 
factured shall  be  kept  in  a  thoroughly  sanitary  con 
and  shall  be  properly  lighted  and  ventilated,  and  all 
necessary  methods  shall  be  employed  to  protect  the  food 
product  prepared  therein  from  contamination.  The 
industrial  board  may  adopt  rales  and  regulations  for 
carrying  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  article.  Such 
rules  and  regulations  shall  be  known  as  the  sanitary 
code  for  bakeries  and  confectioneries  and  shall  not 
to  cities  of  the  first  class.  (Inserted  by  Laws  1913, 
ch.  463.      In  effect  May  9,  1913.) 

Penal  Law. — Sec.   1275.      Violations  of  Provisions  of 
Labor  Law. — Any  person  who  violates  or  does  not  comply 
with.    6.       The  provisions  of  article  eight  of  the 
law,  relating  to  bakeries  and  confectioneries; 

Is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  com ; 
be  punished  for  a  first  offense  by  a  fine  of  nut  les 


170  Appendix 

twenty  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars;  for  a  second  offense 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two  hundred 
dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  thirty 
days  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  for  a  third 
offense  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  sixty 
days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 


INDEX    TO    THE    SANITARY    CODE. 


Abatement  of  nuisances  required h;, 

Accumulating  of  hones,  refuse  and  offensive  materia]  regulated 

by  permit _'  1 1 

Acetanilid,  amount  used  in  drugs  to  \><-  Btated  on  label  1 16 

Acute  anterior  poliomyelitis  (infantile  paralj  -   .  94,  102,  103 

Address  of  practising  physician  to  be  registered  218 

Adequate    ventilation    of    passenger    cars    and    omnibuses    to    be 

maintained 

"Adulterated,"  term  defined 152,  173,  175 

Adulterated  food,  defined 139 

"Adulterated"  oysters  defined 171 

Affidavit  of  chemist,  analyst  or  expert 188 

Agent,  responsibility  as  to  conduct  of  food  establishments  1  17 
Agitation  of  lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers,  etc.,  pro- 
hibited  

Alcohol,  amount  used  in  drugs  to  be  Btated  on  label 316 

wood  (methyl),  poisoning  to  be  reported 92,  106 

"         sale  regulated 1  _'  I 

Alcoholic  distillation  of  spirits 

Alloys,  treating  and  refining 

Alteration  of  buildings  regulated,  strength,  ventilation,  lighl  and 

sewerage 

Amount  of  ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  in  receptacles  regulated  248 

Analysis  as  evidence L88 

Analyst,  affidavit  of,  as  evidence 1  ss> 

"         analysis  by,  as  evidence 188 

Animal  matter,  heating,  drying,  or  Btoring  nol   to  be  conducted 
without  a  permit  in  the  Boroughs  of  Brook- 
lyn, Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond 
offensive,  not  allowed  on  public  street  or  plac< 
Animals,  bedding  of,  not  to  be  dried  on  street,  sidewalk  or  roof        242 
bringing  in  carcasses  of  pertain,  restricted,  exception  ,        1 7_" 
cattle ii 

"           condemnation  and  destruction  authorized.  .  .  1  ;7 

cows'  tuberculin  test,  certificate  required 18 

dead,  boats  for,  require  permit  to  come  to  pier,  etc  246 

"  "      disposal  of,  restricted 


172       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Animals,  dead,  dock  for  removal  of  not  to  be  obstructed 246 

horses  to  be  tagged 9 

"      sick  or  injured,  interference  by  unauthorized  per- 
sons prohibited 7 

"         "or  injured,  dangerous  and  detrimental   con- 
ditions in  connection  with  prohibited 8 

diseased   or   dead,   must   be   removed   quickly   and   in- 
offensively    243 

diseased  or  injured  animals  to  be  reported  and  removed.  6 

destruction  of  diseased  or  injured  animals  authorized ...  5 

"              "  rabid  or  vicious  animals  authorized 10 

exposed   to    or   suffering   from    contagious    disease,    ex- 
cluded from  city 4 

food  and  water  for 14 

homeless '. 16 

injured,  dead,  or  affected  by  contagion,  to  be  reported 

and  removed 6 

injured  or  diseased  and  abandoned,  to  be  destroyed 5 

inspection  of  carcasses  required,  exception 172 

keeping  of  cows  regulated 12 

"        and  disposing  of  dead,  sick  or  injured  animals.  .  8 

"        killing  and  sale  of,  regulated 19 

meat   of   animals   that   have   died   from   disease   or   by 

accident 163 

noise  from  prohibited 215 

not  to  be  taken  upon  street  or  footpath 312 

permit  required  to  yard  or  keep 11 

pigeons,  live,  keeping  regulated 20 

rabid  or  vicious,  destruction  authorized 10 

"        "          "        removal  regulated 10 

"        "          "        to  be  reported 10 

sale  regulated 18 

shelter  for 16 

sick,   dead   or  injured,   prohibiting  unauthorized  inter- 
ference   7 

"     not  to  be  thrown  out 8 

skinning  of  dead  animals  prohibited  in  the  Borough  of 

Manhattan 323 

slaughtered,  not  to  be  taken  from  market   until  fully 

cooled  and  entrails  removed 162 

suffering  from  glanders,  farcy  and  other  contagious  dis- 

5,  not  to  be  retained  or  exposed 3 


Index   ro  Mi>    S>ni  i  \R\  <  '<  'i>i.  i  73 

tlODfl 

Animals,  Buffering  from  glanders,  farcy  ■- > i ■  •  1  othei  contagious  dis- 

\  eterinariana'  reports    ...  ~ 
"        suffering  from   <>r  exposed  to  coi 

eluded  from  city I 

transportation  of 1 1 

unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

unmuzzled  dogs,  prohibited  i>n  public  highways,  pai 

17 

vehicles  for  transporting  cattle i"> 

ventilation  in  connection  with 11 

"        vicious  or  rabid,  to  be  reported 10 

Aldermen,  to  file  copy  of  registry 33 

"  keep  registry  of  marriages 

"  "  register  in  the  Bureau  of  Records '. 

"            "  sign  certificates  of  marriage 36 

Anthrax,  reporting 86 

Antitoxin,  distributed  by  the  Department  of  Health 121 

labeling  of 116 

Apartment,  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 1  ^3 

Apartments,  when  not  to  be  let,  hired  out  or  occupied .",1 

Application  for  permits  to  contain  the  truth 1^7 

Area,  receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  to  be  placed  therein.  .  .  .  248 

Arsenic  poisoning,  reported 92 

Artificial  mineral  waters,  sale  of 165 

Ash  receptacles  not  to  remain  on  street  when  emptied 248 

"     "  be  disturbed 249 

"           regulated  as  to  weight  and  contents 248 

to  be  kept  in  the  building  or  in  the  rear 248 

"     "   placed  in  area  or  within  fence,  etc 2  18 

Ashes  defined 1 

may  be  delivered  to  carts  direct 251 I 

mixed  with  offensive  matter  not  to  be  used  to  fill  in  land. . .  252 

not  to  be  mixed  with  garbage,  etc 248 

"     "    "  sieved,  agitated  or  exposed 253 

"      "     "  thrown  into  privy  vault,  sink  or  cesspool 237 

"      removal  of 250 

to  be  kept  in  separate  metal  receptacles 

transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 

when  to  be  removed  by  owner,  etc 248 

Asiatic  cholera,  duties  of  undertakers  burying  bodies  of  persons 

who  died  of 102 

"         public  funeral  prohibited  where  person  died  from.  103 


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Sections 

Asiatic  cholera,  reporting  of,  required 86 

Assembly  halls   to  be  kept   clean,  lighted,   ventilated  and  safe- 
guarded        55 

Attendant  at  schools,  gymnasiums  and  places  of  public  worship.  .      57 
Auditoriums    to    be    kept    clean,    lighted,    ventilated    and    safe- 
guarded   • 55 

Automobile  not  to  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

"  noise  from,  prohibited 229 

Autopsies,  finding  of,  to  be  reported   to    Department   of   Health 

by  Chief  Medical  Examiner 32,  80 

Avenues  for  driving  cattle,  etc.,  in  Brooklyn  designated 314 

"  "  "  u         a       «    Manhattan  designated 316 

"           "          "            "          "       "    The  Bronx,  Queens  and   Rich- 
mond designated 316 

Bacterial  organisms,  use  in  inoculation  of  human  beings 120 

Bakeries  defined 1 

"  (see  Labor  Law,  Appendix.) 

Bakery  store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Bales  of  goods  not  to  be  placed  where  particles  from  may  enter 

street  or  occupied  building 253 

Barber  shop,  conduct  of 335 

Barrels  not  to  be  placed  where  particles  from  may  enter  street  or 

occupied  building 253 

Barring  of  street  to  prevent  escape  of  cattle 316 

Barytes,  use  prohibited  in  confectionery 139 

Basin,  catch,  no  blood,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,  allowed  to  enter  therein.    234 

"       to  be  separately  trapped 278 

Bath  to  be  separately  trapped 278 

Bathing  establishments,  defined 340 

regulated 340 

"         house,  at  seashore 341 

"        suits,  to  hire 340 

Bathroom,  no  one  permitted  to  sleep  or  remain  therein 62 

Bath-tub  waste,  not  to  connect  to  watercloset  trap 278 

Bay,  no  sewage,  etc.,  to  enter,  except  below  low  water 274 

Beating  of  mats,  carpets  and  cloths  prohibited 253 

Bed  contents  not  to  be  burnt  without  a  permit 242 

Bedding  of  animals  not  to  be  dried  on  street,  sidewalk  or  roof.  .  .  .    242 

"         on  vessels,  removal  and  distribution  regulated 359 

"         prohibiting  casting  into  public  waters  from  vessels 356 

"         soiled  or  dirty,   not  to  be  carried  in  passenger  car  or 

omnibus 302 


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Bedding,  soiled,  to  be  carried  on  front  platform 

bus.. 
Bder  saloon,  use  of  common  towel  prohibited  -'i  • 

Bells,  noise  from,  prohibited 

es,  use  of  taps,  faucets,  banks  and  fountains  foi  1 15 

Bichloride  of  mercurj  .  Bale  regulated 
Birds,  condemnation  and  destruction  authorised    . 

"      meager,  sickly  or  unwholesome 160 

"       noise  from  prohibited 215 

"      unfit  for  use  as  human  i 1 137 

Births 

Bureau  at  w  hjch  to  file 

certification  of  attendance  thereat 

data  to  be  file  I 

"        department  at  which  to  file 

duties  of  midwives 

"       "   physicians :;'  ■ 

duty  of  every  person  presenl  to  file  reporl  of 

"       "    next  of  kin  to  file  report  of 

"  parents  to  file  report  of 

false  certificates  of 

statements  of 36 

"       forbidding  forgery  of  signature 36 

"        on  vessels  to  be  reported :<">7 

"        persons  to  file  copy  of  report 31 

"  "         "   keep  register  of 

"  "         "   report 

4  "        who  shall  sign  certificates  of 

place  of  filing  reports  of :;  1 .  357 

"       professional  assistants  thereat   

"       time  within  which  to  file  reprt  of 31, 

Bisulphide  of  carbon  poisoning  to  l>e  reported 0:.' 

Blend,  use  of  word  in  reference  to  food  and  drink 139 

Blocking  of  street  prohibited 

Blood,  boats  removing,  require  permit  to  •-'>>  to  dock 245 

"       disposal  of,  restricted 

"       heating,  drying  or  storing  not  to  be  conducted  withoul  :i 
permit  in  the  Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,   Bronx,  Queei 

and  Richmond 

Board  defined 1 

Board  and  care  ol  children 197 

Boarding  house,  conduct  and  operation  of  dining  roomi  1 19 


176       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Boarding  house,  conduct  and  operation  of  kitchens 149 

"  "  "  "  "  "  serving  rooms 149 

"       defined 1 

"        not  to  be  overcrowded 5G 

"        owners  to  report  cases  of  infectious  disease  com- 
ing from  vessels 362 

"       suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for  284 

Board  of  Health  order  shall  be  complied  with 51 

"       orders  to  be  complied  with 185 

Boats  for  removal  of  offal,  etc.,  not  to  go  to  pier  without  permit. .   245 
"       loaded  with  manure,  etc.,  not  to  remain  at  dock  without 

permit 242 

"       loud  noises  prohibited  from 361 

"       not  to  discharge  dense  smoke .* 211 

"       with   garbage,   not   to   remain   at   dock   over   twenty-four 

hours 238 

Boilers,  discharge  from  of  steam,  prohibited 212 

Bone  boiling  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Boroughs 

of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond ....   324 

"        prohibited  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan 323 

"  burning  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Rich- 
mond     324 

"        prohibited  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan 323 

"      crushing   not   to   be   conducted   without   a   permit   in   the 

Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond. .    324 
"       grinding  not   to   be    conducted    without    a   permit    in   the 
Boroughs    of   Brooklyn,    Bronx,    Queens   and 

Richmond 324 

"  "         prohibited  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan 323 

Bones,  permit  required  for  collection,  transportation,  storing  or 

exposing  of 241 

Booth  classed  as  a  building 183 

Bottle's  used  for  holding  milk  and  cream 159 

Boxes  not  to  be  placed  where  particles  from  may  enter  street  or 

occupied  building 253 

Branding  cold  storage  food 72 

Brass  ferrule  for  connection  of  roof  and  cast  iron  leader 283 

Brass  poisoning  to  be  reported 92 

"      sleeve  or  ferrule  to  be  used  to  connect  lead  with  iron  pipes.  279 

Breeding  places  of  mosquitoes  to  be  filled,  drained  or  treated 272 

Brick,  deposited  on  street,  regulated 313 


I  mux    in    i  in.  S  \\i  i  \k\    (  '« IDE  177 

Brick,  material,  "r  chimney  flue-,  doI  to  be 
or  plumbing 

Bricks  imt  t<>  be  mixed  with  business  or  ho 

Urine  not  allowed  on  public  Btreel  or  place 

Bronchia]  pneumonia  t"  I"-  reported 

Buffets,  conduit  and  operation  of  dining  rooi   - 

u  "  "  kitchens. , ,  l »'.» 

"  ••  -  Berving  rooms  ]  i*> 

Builders  not  to  allow  anything  dangerous  to  be  done  on  build  i 
"  "         permit  nuisance  on  or  about  construction  work 

■  to  provide  temporary  privies  during  construction  work 
"         ■  require  workmen  t<.  use  temporary 

Building,  definition  of \<>, 

"  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  iuiisaiK-e   .  .  183 

"  temporary  privies  to  be  provided  during 

Buildings,  construction,  alteration,  com  late  1 

"  discharge   of   cinders,   dust,   gas,   steam   and 

odors  from,  prohibited _' 1_' 

■  failure  to  provide  heat  for 225 

"  no  dense  smoke  to  be  discharged  from _'  1  1 

"  not  to  become  a  nuisance 

"  nothing  dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  life  allowed  to  be 

done  therein 52 

■  permit    required    to    store    bones,    refuse    or 

material  therein 

"  precautions  in  demolishing,  altering  or  repairin 

"  require   receptacles  for  ashes,   garbage,   liquid,    wast 

etc 

"  roofs,  skylights,  walls  and  windows  thereof  to  be  kept 

in  good  repair 

"  sewer  connection  for,  to  be  adequate      276 

"  sidewalk  in  front  thereof  to  be  kept  free  and  cli 

"  spitting  upon  floor  of,  forbidden 213 

"  used  for  manufacture  of  illuminating  gas 

"  waste,  soil  and  vent  pipes  in 281 

"  when  not  to  be  let,  hired  out,  or  occupied 

■  where  food  or  drink  is  prepared,  etc 148 

Bulkhead,  boats  for  removal  of   offal,  etc.,  not   to  go   to   without 

permit 

"  for  use  of  offal  contractor  not  to  be  oh>truete: 

Bureau  of  Records  to  register  names  and  addrest  sing 

physicians 218 


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Sections 
Burials,  private  and  general,  procedures  in  infectious  disease. .  102,  103 

Business,  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life  or  health 321 

"  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

"  offensive  or  noisome 322 

"  place  of,  suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets 

for." 284 

"  waste,  not  to  be  mixed  with  household   waste,   grass, 

leaves,  etc 248 

"         waste  to  be  removed  daily 248 

Butcher  denned 1 

Butcher's  refuse  not  to  be  brought  into  the  city 239 

"  "        "     "    "   conveyed    through    the    streets,    etc., 

without  a  permit 239 

Butcher  store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Butter,   sale   of,   made  from  unwholesome,   unclean,   watered   or 

adulterated  milk,  skimmed  milk  or  cream,  prohibited.   151 

"        and  egg  store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Buttermilk,  defined 1 

"  milk  used  in  preparation  of 156 

"  quality  of  product  regulated 158 

Cafe,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"       conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

"  "  "  "  "  kitchens 149 

"  a  a  a  a    servmg  room 149 

Caisson  disease  to  be  reported 92 

Calves,  sale   of  meat  from,   when  killed,   weighing  less  than   45 

pounds 160 

"        slaughtering  regulated 326 

"                     "           without  a  permit 325 

"        the  term  "dressed"  defined 160 

Camps  not  to  be  erected  without  permit 217 

Canal,  no  sewage,  etc.,  to  enter,  except  below  low  water 274 

Cannabis  indica,  sale  and  distribution  regulated 126 

Canned  eggs,  sale  regulated , 331 

Cans,  used  for  holding  milk  and  cream 159 

Carbolic  acid,  when  to  be  sold 123 

Carbon  monoxide  poisoning 92 

Carbonated  water,  permit  to  manufacture  and  sell 165 

Carcasses  of  animals,  required  to  be  inspected,  exception 172 

Cargo,  discharge  regulated 358 

Carpets  not  to  be  beaten  or  shaken 253 

Cars  for  passengers  to  be  cleaned  daily 301 


[NDBX    i"    I'll-.   S\\ii.\in    (  '..i.i.  17'.* 

Cars,  Lighting  of  public  required 

■  loaded  with  manure,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  remain  withi 

permit 

■  passenger,  do  Boiled  bedding  or  clothing  to  be  carrie  I  in 

railroad  passenger,  construction  

■  ■       to  b--  adequately  ventilated 

"  "       spitting  upon  floor  of.  forbidden 

■  railway,  classed  as  buildings 183 

■  soiled  clothing  or  bedding  to  be  carried  on  front  platform 

■  subway,  smoking  in,  prohibited 216 

■  surface,  heating  of  during  certain  months  ; 
Carting  manure,  swill,  ashes,  garbage  and  offal  regulated 

"        of  bones,  refuse  and  offensive  material  regulated  l>y  per- 
mit   241 

Carts  containing  manure,  swill,  etc.,  riot  to  stand  near  buildin 

■  for  o   ensive  material  to  be  cleaned  ;:  tfa out  pro- 

ducing nuisance 244 

"        "     transportation  of  manure,  swill,  ashes,  garbage,  offal, 

etc ! 

Catch-basin,  no  solid  matter  to  be  washed  into 311 

Cattle.     'See  Animals.) 

"        bringing  in  carcasses  of,  restricted,  exception 172 

"        condemnation  and  destruction  authorised 137 

"        de  ined 1 

"        exposed  to  contagious  diseases  excluded  from  city 4 

"        food  and  water  for 14 

inspection  of,  authorized  136 

8  "    carcasses  of,  required;  exception 

"        keeping  of  cows  regulated 12 

"        overheated,  diseased  or  feverish 161 

"        permit  required  to  yard  or  keep 11 

"        slaughtering  regulated 

■  "  without  a  permit 

"        suffering  from  contagious  diseases  excluded  from  city 4 

u         transportation  of 11 

■  tuberculin  test  certificate  required 13 

"        unfit  for  use  as  human  food 

"        ventilation  for 

Cats,  affected  with  or  exposed  to  contagious  disease " 

Ceilings  to  be  cleaned  and  whitewashed 

Cellar  defined 

Cellars,  no  one  permitted  to  sleep  or  remain  therein 


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Sections 

Cellars,  not  to  be  used  as  places  for  sleeping  or  residence 54 

"         permit  required  to  store  bones,  refuse  and  offensive  ma- 
terial therein 241 

"         walls  and  ceilings  to  be  cleaned  and  whitewashed 60 

Cemeteries  not  to  be  established  without  permit 45 

Certificate  of  registered  nurse  required • 219 

Certificates,  health,  regulation  governing  physical  care  of  school 

children 200 

of  births,  to  be  filed  by  professional  attendants 31 

"  tuberculin  test  for  cows 11 

Cesspools,  contents  not  to  be  left  standing  near  occupied  build- 
ing    244 

"  contents  not  to  be  removed  without  permit 236 

"         to  be  disinfected  before  removal 236 

"  leaching,  allowed  under  permit 287 

"  no  offal,  ashes,  meat,  fish,  garbage,  etc.,  to  be  thrown 

therein 237 

"  not  to  be  filled  within  two  feet  of  top 235 

"     "   discharge  into  street  or  public  place 235 

"     "    overflow 235 

"     "   remain,  or  be  built  when  avoidable 287 

"  sides  and  bottom  to  be  watertight 287 

"  to  be  emptied  before  filling  with  dirt 235 

Change    in    drainage,    sewerage,    etc.,    affecting    other   premises, 

regulated 275 

Charter.     (See  Appendix.) 

Cheese,  sale   of,   made  from  unwholesome,   unclean,   watered   or 

adulterated  milk,  skimmed  milk  or  cream,  prohibited 151 

Chemist,  affidavit,  as  evidence 188 

"  analysis  by,  as  evidence 188 

Chickens,  permit  required  to  keep  live 10,  19 

"   kill  live 19 

"   sell 19 

"  sale  of  live,  regulated 19 

Chicken-pox,  exclusion  of  children  from  school  who  have 94 

"  reporting  of,  required 86 

Children,  board  and  care,  regulated ' 197,  200 

"  duties  of  parents,  guardians,  etc.,  regarding  vaccination.  199 

"         "  persons  boarding 197 

"  exclusion  of  from  school 95 

"  medical  examination  of 200 

"  permit  required  to  board 197 


[ndex  to  the  Sanitary  Code  181 

Children,  regulation  governing  physical  care 

"         vaccination  of.  

Chimney  flue,  nol  to  be  used  to  venti  •  plumbing 

Chloral  hydrate,  amounl  used  in  drugs  to  be  state  I  on  label  1 16 

sale  and  distribution  regulated         ..  !-'•'. 

( Jhloroform,  amounl  used  in  Wi-iil'.-  to  !»■  Btated  on  label  1 16 

Cholera,  Asiatic,  duties  of  undertakers  burying  bodies  of  pei 

wlio  died  of 102 

"             "        public  funeral  prohibited  where  person  died  from.  108 
"  "        reporting  of,  required 

Chrome  yellow,  use  prohibited  in  confectionery 

Church,  condition  of,  reflated 57 

"        or  public  funerals  forbidden  in  deaths  from  certain  causes    103 

Cigarettes,  lighted,  in  subway  prohibited    216 

■  manufacture,  sorting  and  handling 

Cigars,  lighted,  prohibited  in  subway 216 

"         manufacture,  sorting  and  handling .'i.is 

Cinders,  discharge  of,  prohibited 212 

Cisterns  not  to  be  filled  within  two  feet  of  top 

"  "     "  discharge  into  street  or  public  place 

"  "      "  overflow 

"         to  be  emptied  before  filling  with  dirt 

Clam  shells  to  he  removed  daily 2  17 

Cleaning  of  public  vehicles  required  and  regulated 301 

"           "  sinks,  privy  vaults  or  cesspools  not  to  be  done  with- 
out permit 

Cleanliness  of  all  dwellings  required 54 

"  ■  all  premises  required 183 

"  "   fish  stores,  oyster  houses,  oyster-saloons  required..      _'17 

"  "  passenger  car  and  omnibus  required 301 

"  "   public  places  required  and  regulated 301 

"  "  roof  tanks  required 61 

"  "  schools,  gymnasiums  and  places  of  public  worship 

required 57 

°  "   vacant  lots  required -'">l 

"  "   walls  and  ceilings  required 60 

u  "  waterclosets  and  privies  required 284 

Clergymen,  duty  to  file  copy  of  registry 88 

"  "     "  keep  registry  of  marriages 

"  "      "  register  with  Bureau  of  Records 35 

■  "      *  sign  certificates  of  marriage 

Cloth,  not  to  be  beaten  or  shaken 


182       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Cloth,  not  to  be  cleaned  or  hung  so  as  to  allow  particles  to  enter 

street  or  occupied  building 253 

Clothing,  soiled  or  dirty,  not  to  be  carried  inside  passenger  car  or 

omnibus 302 

"          soiled,  to  be  carried  on  front  platform  of  car  or  omnibus.  302 

Coal  not  to  be  sieved,  agitated,  etc 253 

Cocaine,  amount  used  in  drugs  to  be  stated  on  label 116 

Coffin  to  be  sealed  in  infectious  diseases 102 

Cold  storage  food,  branding,  stamping  and  marking 72 

"           "      definition 71 

"           "      kind  of  food  to  be  stored 72 

"  "      not  to  be  sold  without  representing  the  fact  of 

such  storage 75 

"           "      released,  not  to  be  returned  to  cold  storage.  .. .  74 

"           "      time  same  may  be  kept 73 

Comfort  station,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"               "         public,  defined 214 

Communicable  diseases,  dispensaries  for  treatment  of,  regulated. .  223 

Compound,  use  of  word  in  reference  to  food  and  drink 139 

Compressed  air  illness  to  be  reported 92 

Concentrated  condensed  skimmed  milk,  defined 1 

skimmed  milk,  defined 1 

milk,  defined 1 

"      permit  to  sell 155 

Concert  hall,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

Condemnation  and  destruction  of  animals  and  foods  authorized.  .  137 

of  drugs  authorized. 129 

Condensed  milk,  adulterated 154 

"      defined 1 

"      permit  to  sell 155 

"           skimmed  milk  defined 1 

"             "      permit  to  sell 155 

Conductor  not  to  carry  soiled  bedding  or  clothes  in  car  or  omnibus.  302 

Confectionery,  adulterated 139 

store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Confiscated  drugs,  disposal  of 127 

Conjuctivitis,  Suppurative,  schools,  dispensaries,  institutions  and 

physicians  to  report 91 

Construction  of  buildings   regulated   as   to   strength,   ventilation, 

light  and  sewerage 52 

"  passenger  cars  and  omnibuses  regulated  as  to  ven- 
tilation    303 


I  \l>l-  \     hi    I  hi-.    S\\l  l  IR1    '  )ODE  I  -  • 

Contagious  diseases.      See  Infectious  d   •  i  i 

6,  B6,  87,  90,  96,  97,  98,  9  I 

■  "      ,  glanders  and  farcy  in  animals  2 
"        in  animals  cause  for  their  exclus  on  from  i  I 

or  infectious  disease  in  animal.-,  re  iuiring  re] 

and  removal 0 

Contract,  definition  of 226 

Contractors,  duties  of 1  82 

for  removal  of  dead  animals,  etc  .  dul  •  -  ol 
"  "         "         "    ofTal  not  to  be  obstructed  in  u» 

dock, etc 

"  "    removal  of  offensive  matter  qo(  to  take  hunt  to 

dock  without  permit 

"  not   to   permit    nuisance   on    <>r   about    construction 

work 

"             to   provide   temporary    privies    during    construction 
work 

■  '•  require  workmen  to  use  temporary  privies  281 
Conversion  of  buildings,  regulated  as  to  strength,  ventilation,  light 

and  sewerage 

Conveyances,  public,  spitting  upon  floor  of,  forbidden 213 

Copper  pipe  for  roof  and  leader  connection 283 

Copy  of  spitting  section  to  be  posted 213 

Coroners •';-'.  BO,  81 

"  notification  by,  to  Department  two  hours  before  holding 

inquest 80 

"  to  file  certificates  of  death 32 

"  "  furnish  in  writing  information  at  request  of  Sanitary 

Superintendent 80 

"            "  give  immediately  to  Department  of  Health  informa- 
tion relative  to  deaths 81 

"  "  notify  in  writing  Department  of  Health BO 

Corporation  defined 214 

Coughing,  persons  to  cover  mouth  and  nose  when 

Covers  for  garbage  and  liquid  waste  receptacles  required.  ...  248 

"        for  water  tanks  on  roofs  required 

Cows,  their  keeping  regulated 12 

"        tuberculin  test  certificate 13 

"      skinning  not  to  be  conducted   withoul    a    p.  rmil    in   the 
Roroughs  of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond 

"       prohibited  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan      

Cream,  adulterated,  denned 162 


184  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Cream,  cleaning  of  bottles  and  cans 159 

"        defined 1 

"        definition  of 152 

8        permit  to  sell 155 

"        reconstituted,  defined 1 

8  "  adulterated,  term  "adulterated"  denned.  .  .    175 

8  sale  regulated 174 

8  "  use  of  receptacles  for  holding,  regulated  and 

restricted 176 

"        sale  of 152 

8           "      "  unwholesome,  unclean,  watered  or  adulterated,  pro- 
hibited     151 

8        seizure  and  destruction  authorized 153 

8        sour,  milk  used  in  preparation  of 156 

8  "      quality  of,  regulated 158 

"  "      sale  regulated 156 

8        to  conform  to  grade  standards 157 

Cremation  of  dead  bodies,  permit  required 42 

Crematories  not  to  be  established  without  permit 45 

Croup  (Diththeria) S6,  94,  102,  103 

Cultures  distributed  by  the  Department  of  Health 121 

Curb  stone  in  front  of  lot  not  to  be  obstructed 53 

Cuspidors  to  be  provided 213 

Custodians,  responsibility  as  to  conduct  of  food  establishments. .  .    147 

Cyanide,  use  for  fumigating  purposes  regulated 104 

Daily  cleaning  of  each  passenger  car  and  omnibus  required 301 

"      removal  of  oyster  shells,  clam  shells,  offal,  etc.,  from  oyster 

houses  etc 247 

Dance  hall,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

Day  nurseries,  conduction  regulated 198 

8  "  permit  required  to  conduct 198 

8     nursery,  defined 1 

Dead  animals,  boats  for,  require  permit  to  come  to  pier,  etc 245 

"  "       disposal  of,  restricted 234 

8  "        dock  for  removal  of,  not  to  be  obstructed 246 

8  "        must  be  removed  quickly  and  inoffensively 243 

8  "or  parts  thereof  not  to  be  used  to  fill  in  land 252 

8  8       to  be  reported  and  removed 6 

"      bodies  of  human  beings 37,  38,  39,  40,  41,  42,  43,  44,  45 

"  8       depth  of  burial 45 

8  "       enclosure  thereof 42 

8  "       not  to  remain  unburied  longer  than  four  days 40 


I  \i>i.\  to  i  he  Sanitary  i  !ode  L85 

Dead  bodies  doI  to  be  retained  or  exposed 
■  "       notification  to  Departmenl  oi  Health  » l 

"  "        permil  required  for  interment,  cremation  or  <>t h<r 

disposition \2 

"  "        permil  to  t  ransporl  . . . 

"  "        removal,  burial  or  other  disposition  o  3,  12,  US 

"  "        report  on  disposition  of ll 

"  "        retention  longer  than  four  days 10 

"     horses  to  be  tagged 9 

"     sick  or  injured  animals,  detrimental  or  dangerous  conditions 

prohibited 8 

"          "    or  injured  animals,    prohibiting  unauthorized  interfer- 
ence         7 

Deaths 

"       autopsy  findings  to  be  reported 32 

u        causes  of  to  be  filed 

"        contents  of  death  certificate 

"        data  required  to  be  filed 

"        duties  of  coroners 32 

"  "       "  "  physicians 32 

"  "       "  physicians  to  register  with  Bureau  of  Records. 

"  "       "  "  to  report 32,  90,  357 

"        from  certain  diseases,  public  or  church  funeral  prohibited.    L03 

"  '"    infectious  diseases  to  be  reported 

"            "            "                 "         "    "          "       by    Medical    Exam- 
iner       80 

"        on  vessels  to  be  reported 

"        physicians  to  keep  registry  of 32 

Decaying  matter  not  to  be  used  to  fill  in  land 

Decoctions,  fraudulent,  distribution  prohibited US 

Definitions 1 

"  adulterated 152 

"  ashes 1 

"  bakeries 1 

"  bathing  establishment 340 

"  board 1 

"  boarding  house •. 1 

"  butcher 1 

"  buttermilk 1 

"  calves,  "dressed" ]r.n 

"  cattle 1 

°  cellar 1 


186       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Definitions,  cold  storage  food 7 

"  concentrated  condensed  skimmed  milk 

"  "  milk 

"  "  skimmed  milk 

"  condensed  milk 

"  "  milk,  adulterated 154 

"  "  skimmed  milk 1 

"  contract 225 

"  cream 1,  152 

"  "      adulterated 152 

"  day  nursery 

"  department 

dirt 

"  dried  milk 

"  dried  skimmed  milk 

"  drugs .  .  .  .' 116 

"  eggs;  spots  and  spot  eggs 33 

"  evaporated  condensed  skimmed  milk 

"  "  milk 

"  "  skimmed  milk 

factory 1,  143 

fish ".  .  .  . . 

"  food 

"  "       adulterated 139 

"  "      misbranded 139 

"  garbage 

"  infectious  disease 

light 

"  lighted 

lodging  house 

manufactory 

meat 1,  163 

"  malted  milk 

"  milk 

"  "      adulterated 152 

"  modified  milk 1,  155 

"not  sound" 163 

permit 

"  person 

pestilential  disease 

"  physician 

"  private  market 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  1^< 

Sectiona 

Definitions,  public  laundry 1 

proprietary  and  patent  medicine 117 

public  place '. 1.  143 

reconstituted  cream 1 

milk 1 

restaurant 149 

skimmed  milk 1,  173 

Bweetened  concentrated  milk 1 

u                     "          condensed  milk 1 

"                   "          skimmed  milk 1 

■                    "          evaporated  milk 1 

refuse 1 

"            report 1 

rubbish 1 

"            Baid  Board 1 

"            saloon 1 

stable 1 

"            streets 1 

"            theatre 1 

"  vegetables 1,  163 

Delay  of  use  of  dock  by  contractor  for  removal  of  offensive  mat- 
ter, prohibited 246 

Deleterious  substances,  not  to  be  used  as  food 141 

Delicatessen  store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Delivery  of  ashes,  garbage,  refuse  and  rubbish,  may  be  made  direct 

to  cart 250 

Dense  smoke,  prohibited 211 

Department,  defined 1 

"  of  Street  Cleaning,  to  remove  ashes,  garbage,  waste, 

etc 248 

"             store,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

«       defined 214 

Deposit,  offensive  or  deleterious 332 

Depositing    of    dirt,   brick   and   other   material   on   street,   regu- 
lated     313 

Depot,  spitting  upon  floor  of,  forbidden 213 

Destruction  and  condemnation  of  foods,  authorized 137 

"             of  animals,  authorized  in  (danders,  farcy,  etc 3 

"  animals,  injured  and  diseased 5 

"             ■  drugs  authorized 129 

'              "   rabid  or  vicious  animals,  authorized 10 

Diagnostic  laboratories  regulated 105 


188  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Dining  rooms,  conduct  and  operation  where  food  or  drink  is  prepared  149 

Denitrobenzine  poisoning  to  be  reported 92 

Diphtheria  (Croup) 86,  94,  102,  103 

Dirt,  boat  removing,  requires  permit  to  go  to  dock 245 

."      defined 1 

deposited  on  street,  regulated 313 

"      dock  for  removal  of,  not  to  be  obstructed 246 

"      dump,  regulated  by  permit 242 

"      mixed  with  offensive  matter,  not  to  be  used  to  fill  in  land. .  .    252 

"      must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

"      not  to  be  dumped  in  built  up  sections  of  the  city 242 

"         "      "    "   raked  or  piled  in  street 243 

"      protection  of  food  from 142 

"      to  be  removed  from  passenger  car  and  omnibus  daily 301 

Dirty  clothing  or  bedding,  not  to  be  carried  in  passenger  car  or 

omnibus 302 

"      clothing  or  bedding,  to  be  carried  on  front  platform  of  car 

or  omnibus 302 

Discharge  of  sewage,  etc.,  into  waters  of  the  city,  to  be  below 

low  water 274 

Disease,   use   of   live   bacterial   organisms   in   the   inoculation   of 

human  beings  for  treatment  of 120 

Diseased  animals,  must  be  removed  quickly  and  inoffensively ....   243 

"  or  injured  animals,  to  be  destroyed 5 

"  «         «  «  «      «  reported  and  removed 6 

,  acts  promoting  their  spread  forbidden 100 

dispensaries  for  treatment  of  communicable,  regulated. .    223 

infectious,  animals  affected  with,  to  be  removed 6 

"  cases  of  on  vessels,  removal  prohibited 354 

"  deaths  from  required  to  be  reported 90 

"  duty  of  boarding  and  lodging  house   owners 

to  report  cases  of 362 

infectious,  duty  of  every  person  to  report 87 

"  "       "  hospitals  and  physicians  to  report ...      86 

"  or  contagious,  in  animals,  to  be  reported 6 

"  institutions  required  to  isolate  persons  affected 

with 96 

infectious,  isolation  of  persons  affected  with 89 

"  on  vessels  liable  to  quarantine,  vessels  not  to 

dock  without  a  permit 352 

infectious,  on  vessels  not  quarantined,  daily  reports  re- 
quired    353 


[ndex  to  nil':  Sanitary  Codk  L89 

Sections 
Diseases,  infectious,  persons  having,  aol   to  engage  in  manufac- 
turing in  tenmenl  houses (»<» 

"         infectious,  removal  <»f  persons  affected  with,  regulated.  .  98 

"                "                "         "        "        having,  authorized !)7 

"         occupational,   hospitals,  institutions,  dispensaries,  and 

physicians  required  to  reporl 92 

"         pestilential,  defined 1 

■         quarantine  of  persons  suffering  with  infectious,  required,  89 
"         venereal,  circulars  re,  to  be  delivered  to  persons  suffer- 
ing with,  by  physicians 88 

Disinfection  and  renovation  of  premises,  furniture,  etc 101 

"  of   contents   of  sinks,   privy   vaults,   cesspools,   etc., 

F                              required 236 

"              "  contents  of  temporary  privies,  required 285 

Dispensaries,  for  communicable  diseases,  regulated 223 

"              to  report  occupational  diseases  and  injuries 92 

"        "       puerperal  septicaemia    "     suppurative  con- 
junctivitis    91 

"              superintendent's  duty  to  report  venereal  disease. ...  88 
Dock,  boats  for  removal  of  offal,  etc.,  not  to  go  to,  without  per- 
mit    245 

"       for  use  of  offal  contractor,  not  to  be  obstructed,  etc 246 

"       manure,  etc.,  pile  thereon,  regulated  by  permit 242 

"       street  sweepings  not  to  be  deposited  on,  without  a  permit. .  252 

Dogs,  exposed  to  contagion 4 

"       mad,  Department  of  Health  to  be  notified  of 10 

"          "      destruction  of  authorized 10 

"           "      removal  of,  regulated 10 

"       not  to  commit  nuisance 227 

"       unmuzzled,  prohibited 17 

"       vicious  or  rabid 10 

Drain,  no  tank  overflow  to  discharge  in 280 

"        not  to  be  vented  by  brick,  sheet  metal,  earthenware,  chim- 
ney flue 282 

"        pipe  from  refrigerator  not  to  connect  with  soil  or  waste 

pipe 280 

"    from  refrigerator  to  discharge  into  a  proper  sink 280 

■        pipes,  joints  in  cast  iron,  how  made 279 

"        to  be  adequate  for  purpose 276 

Drainage,  changes  in  affecting  other  premises,  regulated 275 

"           not  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

"           of  salt  marsh  land,  inland  swamps,  lots,  etc.,  required..  272 


190  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Drainage,    to    discharge    into    waters    of     the    city     below     low 

water 274 

Drains,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Dressing,  of  hides  aDd  leather  without  permit 328 

Dried  eggs,  sale  of,  regulated 331 

"       milk,  defined 1 

"      skimmed  milk,  defined 1 

Drink,  condemnation  and  destruction,  authorized 137 

"        not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

"        unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

"        use  of  taps,  faucets,  tanks,  and  fountairs  for 145 

Drug  addiction,  deemed  a  pestilential  disease 1 

Drugs,  adulterated ^ 116 

"        condemnation  of,  authorized 129 

"        confiscated,  disposal  of 127 

"        definition 116 

"        false  or  misleading  statements 116 

"        fraudulent  distribution  prohibited IIS 

"        habit  forming 126 

"             "           "           use  of  considered  a  pestilential  disease 1 

a        inspection  of,  authorized 136 

"        misbranded 116 

"        possession  of,  prima  facie,  deemed  to  be  held  for  sale  for 

human  use 138 

"        proprietary  and  patent  medicines 116 

"                  "           medicine,  distribution  of  samples  regulated  ..  .  119 

"        purity  of 116 

"        quality 116 

"        standard  of  strengths 116 

Ducks,  keeping,  killing,  and  sale  regulated 19 

Dust,  discharge  of,  prohibited 212 

"       not  to  enter  street,  etc.,  from  building  being  demolished, 

etc 253 

"       protection  of  food  from 142 

"       removal  by  suction  devices 339 

Duties  of  parents,  guardians,  etc.,  regarding  vaccination 199 

"          "  persons,  boarding  and  caring  for  children 197 

"         "           "       conducting  day  nurseries 19S 

«         «           «      practicing  midwifery 19S 

"         "    physicians  and  midwives  as  to  certification  of  births.  .  .  31 
"         "            "              "              "             to    certify    to    professional 

attendance  at  birth 31 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  101 

Section* 
Duties,  of  physicians,  midwives,  parents  and  othera  to  file  rep 

31,  33 
"         "  "         and  midwives,  to  keep  register  of  births.     31,33 

"  "  principals,  teachers,  physicians,  regarding  physical  care 

of  school  children 200 

Duty,  of  contractors,  etc.,  relative  to  cleaning  streets 311 

"         "   railroad  company  operating  cars  or  omnibuses;    relative 

to  heat 304 

Dwelling,  suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for 284 

Dwellings,  requirements  for  use  of  buildings  as 54 

'           to  be  sufficiently  lighted,  ventilated,  provided,  accom- 
modated and  wholesome 5-4 

Dysentry  (epidemic) 86 

Earth,  not  to  be  mixed  with  business  or  household  waste 248 

Earthenware  material,  or  chimney  not  to  be  used  to  ventilate 

sewers  or  plumbing 282 

Eating  utensils,  to  be  properly  cleansed 144 

"              "         use  in  common  prohibited 143 

Egg  and  Butter  Store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Eggs,  adulterated 331 

blood  ringed 331 

"       broken  yolked 331 

"       canned,  sale  regulated 331 

8       dried,  sale  regulated 331 

"       frozen,  sale  regulated 331 

"       not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

"       partially  hatched 331 

"       spot  and  spot  eggs,  sale  prohibited 331 

"       unsound 331 

"      veined 331 

Elevated  railroad,  spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 

Employers,  duties 337 

Enclosure,  classed  as  a  building 183 

Enforcement  of  orders,  not  to  be  hindered lv'i 

8              "  ordinance 1S4 

Engines,  discharge  of  cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam  or  offensive  od     - 

prohibited 212 

Engine,  not  to  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

Entrails,  to  be  removed  from  animals  killed 1G2 

Epidemic  Cerebro-Spinal  Meningitis 86,  94,  102,  103 

Septic  Sore  Throat 86 

Erection,  classed  as  a  building 1 83 


192       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Erection,  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

Estuary,  no  sewage,  etc.,  to  enter  except  below  low  water.. 274 

Eucaine,  Alpha  or  Beta,  amount  used  in  drugs  to  be  stated  on 

label 116 

Evaporated  condensed  skimmed  milk,  denned 1 

"  milk,  defined 1 

"  skimmed  milk,  defin  ed 1 

Evidence,  of  chemist,  etc.,  presumptive 188 

Examination,  by  chemist,  etc.,  in  evidence 188 

"  of  school  children 200 

Examinations  by  inspectors,  not  to  be  hindered 186 

Excavated  lot,  to  be  fenced 251 

Excavation,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

"  no  blood,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,  allowed  therein 234 

"  to  be  filled  or  drained 272 

Execution  of  Board  Orders,  not  to  be  hindered 186 

Expectoration,  receptacles  to  be  provided  for 213 

Expert,  investigation  by,  as  evidence 188 

Exposing  animals  with  glanders,  etc.,  not  permitted 3 

"  of  bones,   refuse  and   offensive   material,   regulated  by 

permit 241 

"  "  lime,  ashes,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers,  etc.,  prohibited..   253 

Exposure  to  contagious  diseases,  of  animals 4 

Factory,  defined 1,  143 

"  floor,  spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 

"  not  to  be  overcrowded 56 

"  refuse,  to  discharge  into  waters  of  the  city  below  low 

water 274 

"  suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for 2S4 

"  to  be  kept  clean,  lighted, ventilated,  and  safe-guarded..  .      55 

"  where  food  or  drink  is  manufactured,  etc 47 

False  certificates  of  births,  deaths  and  marriages,  forbidden 36 

"      reports  of  births,  deaths  and  marriages,  forbidden 36 

"      statements  as  to  births,  deaths  and  marriages 36 

prohibited 187 

Farcy;  duty  of  veterinary  surgeon 2 

Fat,  heating,  drying,  or  storing  not  to  be  conducted  without  a 
permit  in  the  Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and 

Richmond 324 

"      rendering  and  melting,  regulated 329 

"           not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond 324 


I\di  x  to  the  Sanitary  Code  !'.>■') 

Faucets,  use  Eor  any  beverage  or  drink 145 

Feathers,  not  to  be  - '■'•  ed,  agitated,  etc 253 

Feet,  to  be  remove  I  from  animals  kill*- 1 162 

Fence,  required  around  sunken  and  excavated  lots 251 

I'd  rule,  brass,  for  connection  of  root  and  casl  iron  leader 283 

■      to  be  used  to  connect  lead  with  iron  pipe 279 

Ferryboat,  Bpitting  upon  floor  of,  forbidden 213 

Ferryboats,  ''leaning  of,  regulated 301 

"            lighting  of  public,  required 305 

Ferryhouse,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"            spitting  upon  floor  of,  forbidden 213 

Fibers,  removal  by  Buction  devices 339 

Filling  in  land  with  offensive  or  unwholesome  material,  prohibited.  252 

Filth,  must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

"       not  to  enter  waters  of  the  city  above  low  water 274 

"       to  be  removed  from  passenger  car  and  omnibus  daily 301 

Filthy  garbage,  refuse  or  rubbish,  not  to  be  delivered  during  day 

time 250 

Fish,  boiling  without  permit,  not  permitted  in  the  Boroughs  of 

Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond 324 

"      condemnation  and  destruction,  authorized 137 

"      defined 1 

■      manner  of  keeping 8 

"      meager,  sickly  or  unwholesome 160 

"      not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality   140 

"         "      "      "  thrown  into  privy  vault,  sink  or  cesspool 237 

"      smoking  and  preserving 330 

"      stores;  shells  of  oysters,  clams,  etc.,  to  be  removed  daily.  .  .  247 

"       conduct  and  maintenance 150 

"      unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

Flagging  in  front  of  lot,  not  to  be  obstructed 53 

Flag-stones,  to  be  kept  free  of  water  and  ice 271 

Flies,  not  to  have  access  to  contents  of  privies 286 

""""           «        «           u          u  temporary  privies 285 

"       protection  of  food  from 142 

Float,  loaded  with  manure,  etc.,  not  to  remain  at  dock  witout 

permit 242 

Floor,  damp,  room  with,  not  to  be  used  as  a  place  for  sleeping  or 

residence 54 

"       spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 

Flue,  chimney,  not  to  be  used  to  ventilate  sewers  or  plumbing.. .  .  282 

Food,  adulterated 139 


194  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Food,  cold  storage,  definition 71 

"  "  "  not  to  be  sold  without  representing  the  fact 

of  such  storage 75 

"  "      storage,   when   released   not  to   be   returned  to   cold 

storage 74 

"       condemnation  and  destruction,  authorized 137 

"       defined 1 

"       inspection  of,  authorized 136 

"       for  cattle 14 

"       establishments,  to  be  maintained  in  clean  condition 147 

"       gelatin,  sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded,  prohibited 178 

"             "        terms  adulterated  and  misbranded,  defined 178 

"       misbranded 139 

"       not  to  be  deposited  within  two  feet  of  any  sidewalk,  street, 

or  alley,  or  other  public  place 142 

"          "    to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

"       poisoning,  groups  of  cases  to  be  reported 93 

"       possession  of,  prima  facie  evidence  of  intent  to  sell 138 

"       time  same  may  be  kept  in  cold  storage 73 

"       to  be  protected  from  dust,  dirt,  and  flies 142 

Food  unfit  for  human  consumption 137 

Footpath,  no  animal  or  vehicle  to  be  taken  on 312 

Foundling    keepers,    regulations    governing    board    and    care    of 

children 197 

Foundlings,  regulations  governing  board  and  care 197 

Fountains,  use  of  for  beverages  or  drinks 145 

Fowl,  condemnation  and  destruction,  authorized 137 

"       keeping,  killing  and  sale,  regulated 19 

"       meager,  sickly,  or  unwholesome 160 

"       permit  required  to  keep  live 10,  19 

"       slaughtering  -n  ithout  a  permit 325 

"       unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

Frozen  eggs,  sale  of,  regulated 331 

Fruit,  not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

"       and  Vegetable  Store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Fumes,  removal  by  suction  devices 339 

Fumigation  with  cj-anide  regulated 104 

Funerals,  public  or  church,  prohibited  after  deaths  from  certain 

diseases 103 

Furnace,  discharge  from,  of  cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam  or  offensive 

odors,  prohibited 212 

Furniture  disinfection '. 101 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  CorE  195 

Section 

Galvanized  wrought  iron  pipes,  connections  of,  how  made 279 

Garbage,  boats  for,  require  permit  to  go  to  pier 245 

"          denned 1 

"          disposal  of,  restricted 234 

"          dock  for  removal  of,  not  to  be  obstructed 246 

"          in  carts,  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  building 244 

"  u    Richmond  Borough,  may  be  mixed  with  household 

waste  other  than  ashes 248 

"          may  be  delivered  direct  to  proper  carts 250 

"          must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

"          not  to  be  brought  into  the  city 239 

a  "     "     "    conveyed  through  the  streets,  etc.,  without  a 

permit 239 

"            "     to  be  accumulated  in  built  up  section  of  the  city.  .  .  242 

"            "      "    "    mixed  with  ashes,  etc 248 

"             "      "    "   stirred  so  as  to  emit  foul  odors 242 

"             u     "    *   thrown  into  privy  vault,  sink  or  cesspool 237 

u            u     u    u   thrown  on  vacant  lot 251 

«             ■     "    "   used  to  fill  in  land 252 

"            "      "   lie  raked  or  piled  in  street 243 

"             "      "   remain  at  dock  over  twenty-four  hours 238 

"          on  boats,  not  to  remain  at  dock  without  permit 242 

"            "    cars,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  city  without  permit. .  .  .  242 

"          receptacles,  not  to  be  disturbed 249 

■  "               "      "   remain  on  street  when  emptied 248 

°          receptacles,  regulated,  as  to  weight  and  contents 24S 

"                    "            to  be  covered  when  outside  of  building 248 

«                   "              "    u   kept  in  building  or  in  rear 248 

"                   "              "    "   placed  in  area  or  within  fence,  etc.  .  .  .  248 

■  received  and  transported  on  boats,   in  accordance  with 

regulations 238 

"          removal  of 250 

"          storing,  piling  or  dumping,  regulated  by  permit 242 

"          to  be  kept  in  separate  metal  receptacles 248 

"          transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 240 

"          when  to  be  removed  by  owner 248 

Garments,  particles  therefrom,  not  to  enter  street   or  occupied 

building 253 

Gas,  discharge  of,  prohibited 212 

"      escape  of 333 

"      illuminating,  manufacture  of 333 

*                ■                       "               regulated  and  restricted 333 


196       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Gas,  natural,  poisoning 92 

"      offensive  or  deleterious 332 

"      pipes,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Gases,  not  to  escape  from  plumbing  or  gas  pipes 277 

"        removal  by  suction  devices 339 

Gas  House,  disposition  of  refuse  matter 333 

Gathering  of  bones,  refuse  and  offensive  material,  regulated  by 

permit 241 

Geese,  permit  required  to  keep  or  yard 11 

"        live,  their  keeping,  killing,  and  sale  regulated 19 

"        permit  required  to  keep 10,  19 

Gelatine.      (See  Food  Gelatin.) 

German  Measles 86,  94 

Glanders 86 

"  farcy,  etc.,  in  animals,  to  be  reported  by  veterinarians..        2 

"  "  "     not  to  be  retained  or  exposed 3 

"  horses  to  be  tested  for 21 

Glue  making,  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond 324 

Goats,  permit  required  to  keep  or  yard 11 

Gongs,  noise  from,  prohibited 228 

Gonorrhoea 88 

"  circulars  to  be  distributed  to  persons  suffering  with. .      88 

Goods,   not   to   be   placed   where   particles   from   enter   street   or 

occupied  building 253 

Grass,  not  to  be  mixed  with  business  or  household  waste 248 

Graves,  not  to  be  opened  without  permit 45 

Grease,  heating,  drying,  or  storing,  not  to  be  conducted  without 
a  permit  in  the  Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and 

Richmond 324 

Grill  rooms,  conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

8  "  "  kitchens 149 

"  u  "  "  "  "   serving  rooms 149 

Grocery  store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

Ground,  no  blood,  offal,  garabage,  etc.,  allowed  to  go  therein 234 

"         not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

"  offensive;  a  permit  to  disturb  required 232 

"  "         when  to  be  disturbed 232 

"  over  cesspool,  etc.,  to  be  secure  against  saturation 287 

Grounds,  street  sweepings  not  to  be  deposited  on  without  a  per- 
mit     252 

Guardians,  duties  of  regarding  vaccination 199 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code       197 

Guardians,  regulations  governing  board  and  care  of  children 197 

■                     «                    ■          physical  care  of  school  children.  200 
Gut  cleaning,  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn.  Bronx.  Queens,  and  Richmond 

Gutter,  no  water  or  ice  to  collect  therein 

"        not  to  be  obstructed 313 

Gutters,  rain  water,  construction  of 283 

■  to  be  cleaned  and  how 311 

Gymnasium,  condition  thereof,  regulated 57 

Hair,  not  to  be  sieved,  agitated  or  exposed 

dyers,  and  other  toilet  preparations,  regulated 128 

:  Hall,  assembly,   to  be  kept   clean,   lighted,   ventilated  and   safe- 
guarded        55 

"      common  towel,  in,  prohibited 214 

I"      of  tenement  house;  spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 
"        "  worship:  condition  of,  regulated 57 

1  Harbor,  no  sewage,  etc.,  to  enter  except  below  low  water 27-1 

!  Hay,  bedding  of  animals,  not  to  be  dried  on  street,  sidewalk  or 

roof 242 

i      "      not  to  be  burnt  without  a  permit 242 

i  Health,  duties  in  respect  to 181 

■  certificate,  regulating  physical  care  of  school  children  ....   200 

Heat,  failure  to  provide 225 

Heating,  of  cars  and  omnibuses  at  certain  times,  regulated 304 

Hedge-cuttings,  not  to  be  mixed  with  business  or  household  waste  24 S 

Heroin,  amount  used  in  drugs,  to  be  stated  on  label 116 

Hide  curing,  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Boroughs 

of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond 324 

Hides  on  vessels,  removal  and  distribution  regulated 32S 

■  tanning,  skinning,  scouring  or  dressing  regulated 328 

Homogenized  products,  sale  of 152 

Hookworm  disease 86 

Horses,  dead,  to  be  tagged 9 

■  not  to  go  upon  sidewalk  or  footpath 312 

■  permit  required  to  yard  and  keep 11 

■  "  '  slaughter 327 

■  selling  of  horse  flesh  prohibited 327 

"        slaughtering  regulated 327 

Horse  skinning,  not   to   be   conducted   without   a   permit   in   the 
Boroughs  of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and 

Richmond 324 

"  "  prohibited  in  Borough  of  Manhattan 323 


198       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Horse  shoeing  establishments  regulated 342 

Horses  to  be  tested  for  glanders 21 

Hospitals,  duty  of  superintendents  of,  to  report  cases  of  venereal 

diseases 88 

"               "to  report  infectious  diseases 86 

"           permits  for,  required 220 

"           required  to  isolate  persons  having  infectious  diseases. .  .  96 
"                  "          "    report  puerperal  septicaemia  and  suppura- 
tive conjunctivitis 91 

"           to  report  groups  of  food  poisoning  cases 93 

"            u        a       occupational  diseases  and  injuries 92 

Hotel,  conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

"              "           *            "          a    kitchens 149 

"              "           "             "          "    serving  rooms 149 

"        floor;  spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 

Houseboats,  their  use  regulated 360 

House-drains,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Household  ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  when  to  be  removed  by  owner, 

etc : 248 

"  waste,  not   to   be   mixed   with   business   waste,   grass, 

leaves,  etc 248 

"  "        other  than  ashes,  may  be  mixed,  in  Borough  of 

Richmond 248 

House-sewers,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Houses,  failure  to  provide  heat  for 225 

Humidity,  proper  degree  of,  to  be  maintained,  in  theatres,  factor- 
ies, workrooms,  etc 55 

Hydrant  waste  pipe,  to  be  separately  trapped 278 

Hydrants,  care  of 169 

Ice,  not  to  be  allowed  to  gather  on  curb,  flagstone  or  sidewalk..  .  .  271 

Icebox,  not  to  connect  with  soil  or  waste  pipe 280 

"        to  discharge  into  a  proper  sink 280 

Ice  cream,  adulterated;  term  adulterated  defined 177 

"         "        manufacture  and  bringing  into  city  regulated 170 

"         "        misbranded;  term  misbranded  defined 177 

"         "        sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded  prohibited 177 

Imitation,  use  of  word  in  reference  to  food  and  drink 139 

Implements  for  handling  offensive  material,  to  be  cleaned  and 

stored  without  offense 244 

Improvements,  to  be  made  within  time  set 185 

Infectious  disease,  defined 1 

"          diseases,  acts  prompting  their  spread,  forbidden 100 


Index  to  the  Sanitari  Code      199 

Sections 
Infectious  diseases,  cases  of  on  vessels,  removal  prohibited 354 

■  B  deaths  from,  reported 90 

■  ■        duty  of  every  person  to  report 87 

"  *      ■  hospitals  and  physicians  to  report.  ...      86 

■  "         employment  of  persons  suffering  from  in  food 

establishments 146 

"  "  isolation  of  persons  affected  with 89 

"  "         institutions  required  to  isolate  persons  affected 

•     with 96 

"  "         lodging  house  keepers  to  report  cases  of,  from 

vessels 362 

"  "  Medical  Examiner  to  report  facts  re  deaths 

from 80 

*  "on  vessels,  liable  to  quarantine;   vessels  not  to 

dock  without  a  permit 352 

"                 "           "    vessels  not  quarantined,  daily  reports  re- 
quired     353 

"                 '          persons  having,  not  to  engage  in  manufactur- 
ing in  tenement  houses 99 

quarantine  of  persons  suffering  with,  required.     89 

■  u         removal  of  persons  affected  with,  regulated.  .  .      98 
"  "         a   persons  having,  authorized 97 

"  (or  contagious)  diseases,  in  animals,  to  be  reported  and 

animals  removed 6 

Influenza,  to  be  reported S6 

Injured,  sick  or  dead  animals;    prohibiting  unauthorized  interfer- 
ence    7 

Inland  swamp,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

"       swamps,  to  be  filled  or  drained 272 

Inoculation  of  human  beings,  with  bacterial  organisms 120 

Inside  of  each  passenger  ear  and  omnibus,  to  be  cleaned  daily. .  .  .  301 

Inspection  of  carcasses  of  certain  animals,  required;    exception.  .  .  172 

"            of  food  authorized 136 

Inspections,  by  inspectors  not  to  be  hindered 1S6 

"             governing  physical  care  of  school  children 200 

Inspectors,  work  of,  not  to  be  interfered  with  or  obstructed 1S6 

Institution,  for  care  of  sick,  requires  a  permit 220 

Institutions,  permit  required  to  conduct 220 

required  to  isolate  persons  having  infect                       9.  96 

'             to  report  occupational  diseases  or  injuries 92 

■              "   report  puerperal  septicaemia  and  suppurative  con- 
junctivitis.   91 


200       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Interference,  of  unauthorized  persons,  prohibited;    dead,  sick  or 

injured  animals 7 

with  an  inspector  or  agent 186 

"      department  officers,  prohibited 104 

"     posted  notice,  prohibited 189 

"      use  of  dock  by  contractor  for  removal  of  offen- 
sive matter,  prohibited 246 

Investigation,  by  chemist,  etc.,  in  evidence 188 

Iron  pipes,  cast;  how  joints  ir>  must  be  made .  .  : 279 

"     pipe;  galvanized,  wrought;  connections  of;  how  made 279 

Islands,  not  to  be  filled  with  offensive  or  unwholesome  material.  .  252 

Isolation,  of  persons  affected  with  infectious  disease,  required.  ...  89 
"         "        suffering  with  infectious  diseases,  required  in 

institutions 96 

Ivy,  poison 221 

Joint,  between  roof  and  rainleader,  how  made 283 

Joints,  in  drain,  soil  and  waste  pipes,  how  made 279 

"        wiped,  overcast,  calked,  screw,  when  used 279 

Kitchens,  conduct  and  operation,  where  food  or  drink  is  prepared, 

etc 149 

Kumyss,  milk  used  in  preparation  of 156 

"          quality  of  product  regulated 158 

Labor  Law,  bakeries.      (See  Appendix.) 

Laboratories,  diagnostic,  regulated 105 

Lambs,  sale  of  meat  from,  when  killed  less  than  eight  weeks  old..  160 

Lampblack,  manufacture  of 332 

Land,  not  to  be  filled  in  with  offensive  or  unwholesome  material. .  252 

Laundries,  regulated 336 

Lavatory,  common  towels  in,  prohibited 214 

"           public,  defined 214 

Laws  of  the  State,  to  be  obeyed. 184 

Leaching  cesspools,  privy  vault  or  cesspool,  requires  permit 287 

Lead  pipe,  connections  of,  how  made 279 

"          "                "           with  iron  pipe 279 

"          "     for  roof  and  leader  connection 283 

"      poisoning,  required  to  be  reported 92 

"      to  be  used  to  fill  joints  in  cast  iron 279 

Leader,  cast  iron,  how  connected  to  roof 283 

Leaders,  not  to  be  used  as  soil  waste  or  vent  pipes,  or  to  connect 

to 2S3 

"          rain  water,  construction  of 283 

"          when  and  where  fo  be  trapped 283 


Imii  \   ro  mi.  Sanitary  Com-:  201 

Sections 
Leakix)  for  holding  ashes,  garbage  and  liquid  waste, 

prohibited 248 

[teaks,  in  gas,  water  and  plumbing  pipes,  to  be  prevented l'77 

Leather,  tanning,  Bkinning,  and  Bcouring  or  dressing,  regulated.    .  238 

Leaves,  not  to  be  mixed  with  business  or  household  waste _M^ 

Leprosy,  to  be  reported 86 

Lessee,  duties  of 54 

liability  for  nuisance  or  violation  of  Sanitary  Code 51 

"        not  to  allow  premises  to  become  a  nuisance 53 

■  of  building,  not  to  allow  anything  dangerous  to  be  done.  .  52 

■  prohibited  from  letting  unsanitary  building  as  dwelling  or 

lodging 54 

"         to  abate  nuisance  or  prevent  violation  of  Sanitary  Code.  .  51 

■  "  comply  with  orders  of  the  Board  of  Health 51 

Life,  duties  in  respect  to 181 

Light,  defined 1 

■        of  buildings,  to  be  adequate 52 

"       to   be   provided   for   theatres,   and   auditoriums,   assembly 

halls,  factories,  workrooms,  stores  and  offices 55 

Lighted,  defined 1 

Lighting,  of  dwellings  to  be  sufficient 54 

"  "  public  vehicles,  required 305 

■  "  waterclosets  and  privies,  required 284 

Lightshaft,  sewer  or  cesspool  connected  leader  near,  to  be  trapped.  283 

Lime,  not  to  be  sieved,  agitated  or  exposed 253 

"       making,  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond.  .  .  .   324 
Liquid,  foul  or  offensive,  to  enter  waters  of  the  city  below  low 

water 274 

u        from  building,  not  to  cross  sidewalk  or  curb 271 

"        offensive,  not  permitted  on  premises 231 

"        waste,  not  to  be  mixed  with  ashes 248 

■  "       receptacle  for,  not  to  be  disturbed 249 

8             ■                "             "     to  be  covered  when  outside  of  build- 
ing     248 

"  "       removal  of 250 

■  "       to  be  kept  in  separate  metal  receptacles 24S 

•Liquids,   stinking   or   noxious,   not   allowed   on   public   street    or 

place 233 

Liquor  saloon,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

Living,  in  tent  or  camp  without  permit,  prohibited.  .  . 217 

Loading,  of  carts,  etc.,  »vith  offensive  matter,  regulated 244 


202  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Loading,  of  dead  animals,  etc.,  to  be  done  quickly  and  without 

offense 243 

Lobar  pneumonia  to  be  reported 86 

Lobster  shells,  to  be  removed  daily 247 

Locomotive  engine,  discharge  from,  of  cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam  or 

offensive  odors,  prohibited 212 

"                 "        not  to  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

Lodging-house,  defined 1 

"        floor;  spitting  thereon,  forbidden 213 

"       not  to  be  overcrowded 56 

"             "       regulated 334 

"       suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for.  .  284 
"             "to  report  receipt  of  infectious  disease  cases  from 

vessels 362 

Lot,  excavated  or  sunken,  to  be  fenced 251 

"      no  garbage,  refuse  or  offensive  material  to  be  thrown  in 251 

"      not  to  become  a  nuisance 53 

"     sidewalk,  etc.,  in  front  thereof  to  be  kept  free  and  clear 53 

"     street  sweepings  not  to  be  deposited  on  without  a  permit. . .  .  252 

"      sunken,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

"            "         to  be  filled  or  drained 272 

"      to  be  kept  clean  and  free  of  water 251 

Lunch  rooms,  conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

"                "                    a               a                 u                a    k;itchens 149 

"                 "                    a               u                 a                a    gervmg  r00ms 149 

Magistrates,  duty  to  file  copy  of  register 33 

"                 "      "    keep  registry 34 

"                 "       "    register  with  Bureau  of  Records 35 

"                 an   sign  certificates  of  marriages 36 

Malarial  fever,  to  be  reported 86 

Malted  milk,  defined 1 

Manufactories,  suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for. .  2S4 

Manufactory,  defined 1 

Manufacturing  forbidden  in  tenement  houses,  in  presence  of  in- 
fectious disease 99 

Manure  dump,  regulated  by  permit 242 

"             "        within  300  feet  of  church,  etc.,  requires  a  permit. .  242 

"        in  carts,  etc.,  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  building 244 

"        manufacturing  materials 324 

"        not  to  be  dumped  or  piled  in  built  up  sections  of  the  city.  242 

u          a.      u  .  a  stuped  s0  as  t0  emit  foul  odors 242 

"         on  boats,  not  to  remain  at  dock  without  permit 242 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  203 

Sections 
Manure  Oil  car,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  city  without  permit 242 

■  transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 240 

Marriages 33,  34, 

■  copies  of  registry  to  be  filed 33 

■  data  to  be  reported 34 

■  duties    of    clergymen,    magistrates,    and    other    per- 

sons  33,  34,  35,  36 

"  on  vessels,  to  be  reported 357 

person  performing  same  to  register 35 

"  registry  of,  to  be  kept 34 

■  when  and  where  to  file  copy  of  registry 33 

Marsh  land,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

■  "      to  be  filled  or  drained 272 

Master,  duties  of  in  schools,  etc 57 

Mat,  not  to  be  beaten  or  shaken  so  as  to  create  nuisance 253 

Material,  deposited  on  street,  regulated 313 

■  offensive,  permit  required  for  collection,  transportation, 

storing,  or  exposing 241 

"  offensive,  to  enter  waters  of  the  city  below  low  water. . .    274 

"  transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 240 

Materials,  particles   therefrom    not   to   enter   street    or   occupied 

building 253 

"  prohibited,  for  vents  of  sewers  or  plumbing 282 

Matter  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 1S3 

■  offensive  animal  or  vegetable;  disposal  of,  restricted 234 

"               "            boats  removing,  require  permit  to  go  to  dock.  .   245 
"               ■            in  carts,  etc.,  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  build- 
ing     244 

"           not  allowed  to  be  dumped  or  piled  without  per- 
mit     242 

"     to  be  allowed  on  public  street  or  place 233 

"      "  lie  raked  or  piled  in  street 243 

"  "  "      "   be  thrown  on  vacant  lot 251 

"  "  *     "    be  used  to  fill  in  land 252 

u  on  boats,  not  to  remain  at  dock  without  permit.  242 

"  "     cars,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  city  without 

permit 242 

u        offensive,  to  be  disinfected  before  removal 236 

u  "     "  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

Mattress,  contents  not  to  be  burnt  without  a  permit 242 

Matzoon,  milk  used  in  preparation  of 156 

"  quality  of  pioduct  regulated 158 


204  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Measles,  children  having,  to  be  excluded  from  school 94 

8          public  funeral  prohibited  of  persons  who  die  of 103 

8         to  be  reported 86 

Meat,  condemnation  and  destruction  authorized 137 

defined 163 

8       healthy,  fresh,  sound  and  wholesome 163 

"       of  animals  that  died  from  disease  or  by  accident 163 

"       offensive,  disposition  of,  restricted 8 

8       offensive,  keeping  restricted 8| 

"       not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

8          "      "      "    taken  from  market  until  cooled  and  entrails  re- 
moved   162 

8          "    to  be  thrown  into  privy  vault,  sink,  or  cesspool 237 

"       smoking  and  preserving 330 

"       unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

Mechanical  means  of  ventilation,  to  be  provided  in  theatres,  fac- 
tories, work  rooms,  etc 55 

Medical  examination  of  school  children 200 

8         Examiners 32,  80 

duties  of 32,  80 

to  file  certificates  of  death 32 

"  "  "  report  to  Department  of  Health  findings  of 

autopsies 80 

"         inspection  of  school  children 200 

Medicine,  fraudulent  distribution  prohibited 118 

8           proprietary  or  patent,  adulterated 116 

"           sold  or  given  away  upon  prescription  of  physician 117 

Meningitis,  epidemic  cerebro-spinal,  children  to  be  excluded  from 

school  who  have 94 

8  epidemic  cerebro-spinal,  public  funerals  prohibited  of 

remains  of  persons  who  died  of 103 

(epidemic   cerebro-spinal  and  tuberculous)   to  be  re- 
ported    86 

8            epidemic,  cerebro-spinal,  undertaker's  duties  in  bury- 
ing bodies  of  persons  who  died  of 102 

Merchandise,  not  to  be  placed  where  particles  from  may  enter 

street  or  occupied  building 253 

Mercury,  bichloride  of,  sale  regulated 125 

"          poisoning,  to  be  reported 92 

Metal  receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  required 248 

8       sheet,  or  chimney,  not  to  be  used  to  ventilate  sewers  or 

plumbing .  .  ._ 282 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  205 

Sections 

Mel  lis,  treating  and  refining 332 

Method  of  cleaning  streets  and  gutters,  regulated -'ill 

Methyl  alcohol  (or  wood  naphtha)  poisoning 92 

"  "       Bale  regulated 124 

Midwifery,  duties  of  persons  practicing 198 

practice  regulated 196 

Midwives,  duties  of 198 

"  duty  of,  to  report  births 31,  33,  36 

"  regulations  for  practice 190 

"  to  keep  rejristry  of  births 31,  32,  33 

Milk,  adulterated,  defined 152 

■  cleaning  of  bottles  and  cans 159 

"       concentrated,  defined 

"  "  condensed  skimmed,  defined 

"  "  skimmed,  defined 

"       condensed,  defined 

"       condemnation  and  destruction  authorized 13 

"       condensed,  and  condensed  skimmed 154 

"  "  skimmed,  defined 

"       defined  

"       dried,  defined 

"  "      skimmed,  defined 

"       evaporated,  defined 

"  "  condensed  skimmed,  defined 

"  "  skimmed,  defined 

"       grades  and  designations 156 

"       curds,  sale  of 152 

■  healthy,  fresh,  sound  and  wholesome 163 

"       inspection  of,  authorized 136 

"       malted,  defined 1 

■  modified,  defined 1 

"       reconstituted,  defined 1 

"  "               receptacles  used  for  holding,  regulated,  and 

restricted 176 

"       reconstituted,  sale  regulated 174 

"  "  term  adulterated  defined 175 

"       skimmed,  adulterated  distribution   prohibited,   term  adul- 
terated defined 173 

■  skimmed,  defined 1,  173 

"               "           sale  of  unwholesome,  unclean,  watered  or  adul- 
terated, prohibited 151 

"       skimmed,  seizure  and  destruction  authorized 153 


206  Index  to  the  Saxitary  Code 

Sections 

Milk,  sweetened  condensed,  denned 1 

"                "                   "           skimmed,  denned 1 

"               "           concentrated,  denned 1 

"       sweetened  evaporated,  defined 1 

"       not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

"       permit  to  sell 155 

"       sour,  quality  regulated 158 

"       seizure  and  destruction  authorized 153 

"       store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

"       swill,  or  milk  from  cows  fed  on  swill 151 

"       temperature  of 152 

"       to  conform  to  grade  standards 157 

"       unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

8       unwholesome,  unclean,  watered  or  adulterated 151 

"       used  in  preparation  of  sour  milk 156 

Mineral  waters,  permit  to  manufacture 165 

"              "        sale  of 165 

Misbranded  drugs 116 

food,  defined 139 

"            oysters,  defined 171 

Misfeasance 1S1 

Misleading  statements  in  applications,  prohibited 187 

Modified  milk,  defined 1,  155 

"             "       permit  to  sell 155 

Morphine,  amount  used  in  drugs  to  be  stated  on  label 116 

"           sale  and  distribution  regulated 126 

Mosquitoes,  breeding  places  of,  to  be  filled,  drained  or  treated..  .  .  272 

Motor  vehicles,  noise  from,  prohibited. 229 

"       vehicle,  not  to  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

Mumps,  exclusion  of  children  having,  from  school 94 

"         to  be  reported 86 

Mutilation  of  posted  notice,  forbidden 1S9 

Muzzles,  dogs  to  wear 17 

Name  of  practicing  physician,  to  be  registered 218 

Natural  mineral  waters,  sale  of 165 

Neglect  to  comply  with  regulation  or  order,  a  violation 1S4 

Negligence,  responsibility  for 181 

Newspapers,  to  be  bundled  or  secured  before. placing  for  removal.  24S 

Next  of  kin,  duty  to  file  report  of  birth 31 

Night-soil,  dock  for  removal  of,  not  to  be  obstructed. .  .• 246 

"         must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

"         not  to  discharge  into  street,  public  place,  or  waters.  .  .  235 


I \Di.\   ro  the  Sanitary  Code  207 

Sections 

Night-soil,  i"  !"•  disinfected  before  removal 238 

Noise,  from  automobiles  and  motor  vehicles,  prohibited 229 

bells,  gongs,  etc.,  prohibited -'-'s 

"          "     birds  and  animals,  prohibited 215 

explosive  on  vessels,  prohibited 361 

Noisome,  trades  and  businesses 322 

Non-compliance  with  provisions  of  Sanitary  Code 182 

Nonfeasance 181 

Notice,  not  to  be  mutilated  or  interfered  with 189 

"        of  change  in  sewer  connection,  etc.,  affecting  other  premises  275 

Notices  forbidding  Bpitting,  to  be  posted 213 

Nuisance,  caused  by  loud  explosive  noises  from  automobiles,  pro- 
hibited   229 

"           caused  from  bells  or  gongs  prohibited 228 

"          declared  by  Board  resolution 185 

"           liability  of  owner,  lessee,  tenant  and  occupant  for 51 

"           not  to  be  caused  by  discharge  of  sewage,  etc 274 

"             "      "    "   committed  by  dogs 227 

"  "      "     "  "by    workers    during    construction 

work 285 

"           of  discharge  of  cinders,  dust  and  offensive  odors,  pro- 
hibited   212 

"           who  shall  prevent  or  abate 51 

Nuisances,  to  be  abated 1S3 

8             "     "          "        within  time  set 185 

"            and  conditions  dangerous  to  health  and  life,  forbidden.  53 

Nurse,  registered,  defined 219 

"            who  shall  use  title 219 

Nurseries,  day,  regulated 198 

"           permit  required  to  conduct  day 198 

"           required  to  isolate  persons  having  infectious  diseases. .  .  96 

"           rules  governing  conduct  of  day  nurseries 19S 

Oakum,  to  be  used  to  fill  joints  in  cast-iron  pipes 279 

Obedience  of  orders,  required 184 

Obstructing  an  Inspector  or  agent  prohibited 186 

"            s1  reet,  prohibited 312 

Obstruction  of  dock  used  by  contractor  for  removal  of  offensive 

matter,  prohibited 246 

"             ■  free  flowage  along  gutter,  prohibited 313 

Obstructions  in   drains,   soil-pipes  and  sewer   connections,   to  be 

prevented 276 

"             "  sewers,  to  be  prevented 273 


208  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Obstructions  in  vent  pipes,  to  be  prevented , . ' 277 

Occupant,  liability  for  nuisance  or  violation  of  Sanitary  Code ....      51 

"  not  to  allow  premises  to  become  a  nuisance 53 

"  of  building,  not  to  allow  anything  dangerous  to  be  done.     52 

"  responsibility  as  to  conduct  of  food  establishments.  .  .  .    147 

"  to  abate  nuisance  or  prevent  violation  of  Sanitary  Code.     51 

"  "  comply  with  order  of  the  Board  of  Health 51 

Occupational  diseases  to  be  reported 92 

Occupations,  dangerous  or  detrimental  to  life  or  health 321 

Ocean  bathing,  regulated 341 

Odors  from  offensive  matter  in  ground 232 

"      not  to  escape  from  piumbing 277 

"       offensive,  discharge  of  prohibited 212 

"  from    privy    or   watercloset,    not   to    enter    any 

premises 284 

"       offensive  and  prejudicial  to  health  in  room,  require  that  its 

use  for  sleeping  or  resident  purposes  be  prevented.  ...      54 

Offal,  boats  for,  require  permit  to  go  to  pier 245 

"       boiling  of,  prohibited  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan 323 

"       butchers'  disposal  of,  restricted 234 

"       contractor;  duties  of,  relative  to  bringing  boats  to  dock,  etc  .    245 

"  "  not  to  be  obstructed  in  use  of  dock,  etc 246 

"       dock,  not  to  be  obstructed,  etc 246 

"       clump,  regulated  by  permit 242 

"       from  fish,  to  be  removed  daily 247 

"       in  carts,  etc.,  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  buiiding 244 

"       must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

"       not  to  be  brought  into  the  city 239 

"         a     a     a   conveye(j   through  the    streets,    etc.,    without    a 

permit 239 

"         "    to  be  piled  in  built  up  section  of  the  city 242 

"  "      "     "    thrown  into  privy  vault,  sink  or  cesspool 237 

"       on  boats,  not  to  remain  at  dock  without  permit 242 

"        "    cars,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  city  without  permit 242 

"       transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 240 

"       boiling,  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond 324 

Offensive  animal  matter,  heating,   drying,   or  storing,  not  to  be 
conducted   without   a   permit   in  the   Boroughs   of 

Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond 324 

"  garbage,  refuse  or  rubbish,  not  to  be  delivered  during 

daytime 250 


Imm.x  ro  i m:  Sanitary  Code  209 

-     tionfl 
Offensive  material,  in  carts,  etc.,  doI   to  be  left   near  occupied 

building 244 

material,  not  to  !><■  thrown  on  vacant  lot 251 

u  '  permit  required  for  collection,  transportation, 

storing  or  exposing 241 

■  material,  to  enter  waters  of  the  city  below  law  water.  27  i 
"  matter,  boats  removing,  require  permit  to  go  to  dock.  _'  15 
"  "       not  allowed  on  public  street  or  place 233 

■           "     to  be  thrown    into   street,  sewer,  river,  ex- 
cavation, etc 234 

■  ■         not  to  be  used  to  fill  in  land 252 

"  ■  ■     "   lie  raked  or  piled  in  street 243 

"  "on  boats  not  to  remain  at  dock  without  permit.  242 

■  "  *     cars,  not  allowed  to  stand  in  city  without 

permit 242 

"         matter,  to  be  disinfected  before  removal 230 

"  "  "     "    removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

■  odors,  discharge  of,  prohibited 212 

■  "         from    privy    or    watercloset,    not   to    enter    any 

premises 284 

"         substance,  not  allowed  to  be  dumped  or  piled,  without 

permit 242 

"         trades  and  businesses 322 

"  vegetable  matter;    heating,  drying,  or  storing  not  to  be 

conducted   without   a   permit   in   the   Boroughs   of 

Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond 324 

"  water  or  other  liquid,  not  permitted  on  premises 231 

Office,  not  to  be  overcrowded 56 

■       suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for 2S4 

Officers    of    Health    Department,    not    to   be   interfered    with    or 

obstructed 104 

Offices  to  be  kept  clean,  lighted,  ventilated,  and  safeguarded 55 

Oil,  boiling  of 332 

Omission  of  contractor  to  comply  with  provisions  of  the  Sanitary 

Code 182 

Omnibus,  heating  of,  during  certain  months 304 

"  passenger,  construction 303 

"  "  no  soiled  bedding  or  clothing  to  be  carried  in.    302 

■  "  to  be  adequately  ventilated 303 

"  «  a  o    cieanet|  daily 301 

"          soiled  clothing  or  bedding  to  be  carried  on  front  plat- 
form     302 


210       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Opium,  amount  used  in  drugs  to  be  stated  on  label 116 

"        sale  and  distribution  regulated 126 

Order  of  the  Board  of  Health 185 

"        "      "         "        "         "         shall  be  complied  .vith 51 

"        "     "         "        "         "         to  be  obeyed 184 

Orders  of  the  Board  to  be  executed 186 

Ordinances,  obedience  to,  required 184 

Ores,  treating  and  refining 332 

Organisms,  bacterial,  use  of  in  inoculation  of  human  beings 120 

Overcast  joint,  when  used 279 

Overcrowding,  prohibited 56 

Overflow  from  tank,  to  discharge  on  roof  or  into  tank 280 

"         pipe,  from  tank  not  to  discharge  into  soil  or  waste  pipe, 

watercloset,  drain  or  sewer 280 

Owner,  duties  of 54 

"        liability  for  nuisance  or  violation  of  Sanitary  Code 51 

"        not  to  allow  premises  to  become  a  nuisance 53 

"         of  building,  not  to  allow  anything  dangerous  to  be  done .  .      52 
"        prohibited  from  letting  insanitary  building  as  dwelling  or 

lodging 54 

"        prohibited  from  renting  cellar  for  dwelling  or  lodging 54 

"        responsibility,  as  to  conduct  of  food  establishments 147 

"        to  abate  nuisance,  or  prevent  violation  of  Sanitary  Code.     51 

"  "    comply  with  order  of  the  Board  of  Health 51 

Oysters,  misbranded 171 

"         permit  to  sell 164 

"         sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded,  prohibited 171 

"         adulterated,  defined 171 

Oyster-house,  to  be  kept  clean,  and  shells  and  offal  removed  daily.  247 
"       saloon,  to  be  kept  clean,  and  shells  and  offal  removed 

daily 247 

"       shells,  to  be  removed  daily 247 

Paper,   soiled,   to   be   mixed   with   garbage,   etc.,   in   Borough   of 

Richmond '. 248 

"        to  be  bundled,  or  secured,  before  placing  for  removal 248 

Paratyphoid  fever,  to  be  reported 86 

Parents,  duties  of,  regarding  vaccinations 199 

"         duty  of,  to  file  report  of  birth 31 

"         regulations   governing   physical   care   of   school   children 

affecting 200 

Patent  medicine,  adulterated 116 

"  "  definition 117 


Ixdi.x  ro  the  Sanitary  Code  211 

Sections 

Patent  medicine,  distribution  of  samples  regulated 110 

■  ■         ingredients  registered  to  be  confidential 117 

■  '          names  of  ingredients  to  be  registered 117 

"              "          not  prepared  in  accordance  with  label 116 

"               "          records  of,  to  be  kept 117 

"               "                "         "    by  whom  may  be  inspected 117 

"               ■          sale  regulated 117 

Penalty,  for  violation  of  Sanitary  Code.  .    224 

Permit,  boiling  of  oil 332 

■  "        "   varnish 332 

■  defined 1 

■  distilling  of  alcoholic  spirits 332 

■  fertilizer,  manufacturing 324 

■  fish  smoking,  or  preserving 330 

"         for  boat  removing  offensive  matter  to  go  to  dock 245 

"           "    burninc;  straw,  hay,  contents  of  mattress  and  bed.  .  .  .  242 
"           "     carting  and  storing  bones,  refuse  and  offensive  ma- 
terials    241 

"           "    carrying  ofTal,  butcher's  refuse,  and  garbage 230 

"           "    dressing  hides  or  leather 328 

"           "    gut  cleaning 324 

"           "    horse-shoeing  establishments 342 

8           "    horse-slaughtering  establishments 327 

"           "    hospital,  institution,  or  sanitarium 220 

"          "    leaching  privy  vault,  cesspool  or  school-sink 287 

■  "    piling,   dumping,   etc.,  manure,    garbage,    offal,    dirt, 

etc 242 

"  "    removal,  burial  or  other  disposition  of  body  granted 

only  upon  certificate  of  death 38 

u          "   removal  of  contents  of  cesspool 236 

"          "           "          "          "          "  privy  vault 236 

"  sink 236 

"          "          "         "  infectious  disease  case  from  vessels 355 

"          "    skinning  hides  or  leather 328 

■  "    scouring      "        "        "       328 

■  "   stable 58 

■  to  keep  or  yard  goats 11 

"                  "       "       "      horses 11 

■  a      u       u      u     sheep 11 

■  "      "      *      "     swine 11 

*           '   kill  chickens 10 

"          "  make  glue 324 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 


Sections 

Permit   to  make  lime 324 

"          "  manufacture  carbonated  water 165 

"             ice  cream  or  bring  same  into  city 170 

mineral  water 165 

"             table  water 165 

"          "  open  ground  containing  offensive  matter 232 

"          "  operate  restaurant 149 

"          "  practice  midwifery 196 

"           "          "         undertaking 46 

"           "  render  and  melt  fat 329 

"        "       fat 324 

"  sell  birds 18 

"          "     "    canned  eggs 331 

"    cats 18 

"    condensed  or  concentrated  milk 155 

"           skimmed  milk 155 

"    cream 155 

"    dried  eggs 331 

"    frozen  eggs 331 

"    live  chickens 19 

"    dogs ' 18 

"    milk 155 

"     "    modified  milk 155 

"     "    shellfish  required,  exception 164 

"     "    skimmed  milk 155 

"     "    oysters 164 

"      "    cows 324 

"      "    horses 324 

"  slaughter  calves 325 

"          cattle 325 

fowl 325 

"           "          horses 327 

"           "          pigs 325 

"           "          sheep 325 

"          swine 325 

"  use  water  from  wells 168 

treating  and  refining  of  alloys 332 

"           "           "   "     "    metals 332 

"    ores 332 

for  storing  brick,  etc.,  on  street 313 

"    tanning  hides  or  leather 328 

"    tent  or  camp .  .'. 217 


[ndex   ro  the  Sanitary  Code  213 

Permit    for  transit,  removal,  burial  or  other  disposition  of  dead 

bodies 38,  12,  15 

"         "    transit,  nol  to  !><•  granted  unless  certificate  of  death 

be  filed 38 

"  '•    transportation  of  manure,  bwIII,  ashes,  garbage,  offal, 

etc 240 

granted  on  certificates  of  deatb  signed  by  physicians 38 

"        manure,  manufacturing  materials  for  use  as 324 

"          mi  at  Bmoking  or  preserving 330 

"         obtained  by  false  statements 187 

"         sausage  manufacturing  and  preparing 330 

"         to  board  and  care  tor  children 197 

"  boil  hones '. 324 

"      "    fish 324 

"      "    oTal 324 

■  ■    swill 324 

"          "  break  out  eggs 331 

"          "  burn  bones 324 

■  ■      shells 324 

"          "  carry  on  offensive  or  noisome  trade  or  business 322 

"          "  conduct  a  bathing  establishment 340 

"          "          "         "  day  nursery 198 

"          "          "        diagnostic  laboratory,  required 105 

*          "           "a  lodging  house 334 

"  school 222 

"  "   crush  bones 324 

8  "  cure  hides 324 

"  "  dump  street  sweepings 252 

"  "  generate  any  offensive  or  deleterious  gas,  vapor,  etc.  .  .    332 

"  "  grind  bones 324 

"  "  heat,  dry,  or  store  animal  matter 324 

"       ■         *       *      ■      blood 324 

"  "      "         "       "       "      scraps 324 

■  "         "       "       "      fat 324 

"  u      u         u       u       u      grease 304 

'          u      u        "       "      "      vegetable  matter 324 

"          "  hire  out  bathing  suits 340 

"          "  keep  live  chickens 19 

"           "       "         "     pigeons 20 

"          "       "      or  yard  cattle 11 

"          "      "      "      "     geese 11 

Person,  defined 1 


214  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Persons,  affected  with  infectious  or  venereal  diseases 146 

"         present  at  birth,  to  file  report  of 31 

Pestilential  disease,  defined 1 

Phenol,  sale  regulated 123 

Phosphorus  poisoning 92 

Physical  care  of  school  children 200 

Physician,  defined 1 

Physicians,  duty  of,  to  distribute  circulars  re  venereal  disease.  ...      88 

"  qualifications  to  sign  certificate  of  death 38 

regulation  governing  physical  care  of  school  children. .    200 

to  keep  registry  of  births  and  deaths 31,  32,  33 

"  register  names  and  addresses 218 

"  report  births 31,  33 

"        "       cases  of  suppurative  conjunctivitis 91 

"        "  "       "  wood  alcohol  poisoning 106 

"        "       deaths 32,33,90 

"        "       groups  of  food  poisoning  cases 93 

"        "       occupational  diseases  and  injuries 92 

"        "       infectious  diseases 86 

"        "       puerperal  septicaemia 91 

"  u        u       venereal  diseases 88 

"  sign  certificates  of  death 38 

of  vessels,  duties 351 

Piers,  boats  for  removal  of  offal,  etc.,  not  to  go  to,  without  per- 
mit     245 

"       for  use  of  offal  contractor  not  to  be  obstructed,  etc 246 

"       manure,  etc.,  piled  thereon,  regulated  by  permit 242 

"       street  sweepings  not  to  be  deposited  on,  without  permit. .  .  .    252 

Pigeons,  live,  keeping  regulated 20 

Pigs,  meat  therefrom,  when  killed  less  than  five  weeks  old 160 

"      slaughtering,  regulated 326 

without  a  permit 325 

Pipes  from  refrigerators  not  to  connect  with  soil  or  waste  pipe  .  .  .    280 

"  "  to  discharge  into  proper  sinks 280 

"          "      tank  not  to  discharge  into  soil  or  waste  pipes,  water- 
closets,  drams  or  sewers 280 

"  "     tanks  to  discharge  on  roof  or  into  a  tank 280 

"      how  joints  must  be  made  in  cast  iron  drain,  soil  and  waste 

pipes 279 

"      lighted,  in  subway,  prohibited 216 

"      plumbing  and  gas,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

"      waste,  soil,  vent,  above  roof;  construction  and  location.  .  .  .    281 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  215 

Sections 

Pipes,  public,  not  to  be  blocked  or  obstructed 312 

where  food  or  drink  is  manufactured,  etc 1  17 

u  "  "      "         "     "  prepared,  etc 148 

Plague 86,  102,  103 

Plumbing  fixtures  to  be  separately  trapped 278 

"  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Pneumonia,  to  be  reported 86 

Poison,  distribution  regulated 122 

"        sale  of  bichloride  of  mercury  regulated 125 

■  *     "  wood  naphtha,  or  wood  alcohol,  regulated 124 

"     regulated 122 

Poisoning  by  arsenic,  etc.,  reporting  of,  required 92 

"  cases  of,  to  be  reported 92 

u  "       "     wood  alcohol,  to  be  reported 106 

food 93 

"  occupational 92 

Poisonous  substances  not  to  be  used  as  food 141 

"  colors  prohibited  in  confectionery 139 

Poultry,  permit  required  to  keep  live 10,  19 

■     kill....  : 19 

8     sell  live 19 

"         sale  of  live,  regulated 19 

Practice  of  midwifery 196 

"  "  undertaking  regulated 46 

Premises,  dogs  not  to  commit  nuisances  on 227 

"  no  dust,  etc.,  to  enter 253 

"  where  food  is  manufactured  or  handled,  to  be  kept  clean.  147 

Prescriptions  to  be  filled 117 

Prima  facie  evidence,  drugs 138 

food 178 

Principals,  duties  of,  re  care  of  school  children 200 

"           regulations  governing  physical  care  fo  school  children.  200 
Principal  or  agent,  responsibility  as  to  conduct  of  food  establish- 
ments     147 

Private  market  defined 1 

Privies,  maintenance  of 284 

"         odors  from 284 

"         suitable,  to  be  provided  for  factories,  dwellings,  etc 284 

"         temporary,  contents  to  be  disinfected  and  removed 285 

"  "  to  be  accessible  for  workmen    and   screened 

from  flies 285 

"         temporary,  to  be  provided  during  construction  work 285 


216       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Privies,  temporary,  workmen  required  to  use  same  on  construc- 
tion work 285 

8         to  be  screened  to  prevent  access  of  flies 286 

Privy  vault  contents  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  building 244 

"           "                          "      "     "  removed  without  permit 236 

"          "             "to  be  disinfected  before  removal 236 

8  "      leaching,  allowed  under  permit 287 

8  "no  offal,  ashes,  meat,  fish,  garbage,  etc.,  to  be  thrown 

therein 237 

"           "      not  to  be  filled  within  two  feet  of  top 235 

8           "         "      "  discharge  into,  street  or  public  place 235 

8                    "      "  overflow 235 

"           "         "      "  remain  or  be  built  when  avoidable 287 

"           "      sides  and  bottom  to  be  watertight 287 

"           "      to  be  emptied  before  filling  with  dirt 235 

Proprietary  medicine,  adulterated 116 

"                    "           definition 117 

8                    8           distribution  of  samples  regulated 119 

8                    "           ingredients  registered  to  be  confidential.  ..  .  117 

8                   8           names  of  ingredients  to  be  registered 117 

8           not  prepared  in  accordance  with  label 116 

"                    "           records  may  be  inspected 117 

8                    "                "        to  be  kept 117 

8                    "           sale  regulated 117 

Protection  of  food  from  contamination,  required 142 

Public  places,  cleanliness  of,  required  and  regulated 301 

Public  place,  conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

"           "              "           "             8           "    kitchens 149 

8           8              "           8             8           8   serving  rooms 149 

"       denned 143 

"       ?  8       not  to  be  blocked  or  obstructed 312 

8           8       spitting,  thereon,  forbidden 213 

8       water  supply  to  be  protected ...  166 

Puerperal  septicaemia,  duty  of  dispensaries,  institutions  and  phy- 
sicians to  report 91 

Pulmonary  tuberculosis,  exclusion  of  children  from  school  for ....  94 

"                      8             to  be  reported S6 

8                      "in  teachers 95 

Punishment  for  violation  of  Sanitary  Code 224 

Pupils,  precautions  respecting 57 

8        regulations  governing  physical  care  of 200 

Putrid  matter  to  be  disinfected  before  removal 236 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  217 

Sections 

Quarantine  of  persona  Buffering  with  infectious  disease,  required.  .  89 

"           "  vessels  from  infected  ports 352 

"  vessels  not  in,  to  submit  a  daily  report  of  contagious 

disease 353 

Rabies  to  be  reported 86 

Rags  not  to  be  placed  where  particles  from  may  enter  street  or 

occupied  building 253 

"      on  vessels,  removal  and  distribution  regulated 359 

Rahm,  sale  of 152 

Railroad  cars,  etc.,  spitting  therein  forbidden 213 

u            "      heating  of,  regulated 304 

"            "      lighting   "    required 305 

"            "      passenger,  construction 303 

"            "              "           cleaning 301 

"  "  "  soiled  clothing  or  bedding  to  be  carried 

only  on  front  platform 302 

"              "           ventilation  of 303 

"         station,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"         subway,  smoking  in,  prohibited 216 

"         underground,  smoking  in,  prohibited 216 

Rain  water  to  be  prevented  from  entering  buildings 59 

Receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  remain  on  street  after 

removal  of  contents 248 

"  "    ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  to  be  placed  in  area  or  within 

fence,  etc 24S 

"  "     ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  to  be  satisfactory  to  Street 

Cleaning  Department 24S 

"    ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  be  filled  to  4  inches  of 

top 248 

u    ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  contain  over  two  cubic 

feet 24S 

"     ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  weigh  more  than  100 

pounds 24S 

"     ashes,   garbage,   or  liquid   waste   not  to  be   dis- 
turbed    249 

"    ashes,  garbage  and  liquid  waste  required 248 

u    garbage,  or  liquid  waste,  to  be  covered  when  out- 
side of  building 248 

milk  and  cream 159 

spitting,  to  be  provided  for 213 

Reconstitute  1  cream,  adulterated,  term  adulterated  denned 175 

"        defined 1 


218  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Reconstituted  cream,  sale  regulated 174 

"        use  of  receptacles  for  holding,  regulated  and 

restricted 176 

"  milk,  adulterated,  term  adulterated  defined 175 

"      defined 1 

"  "      sale  regulated 174 

"  "      use  of  receptacles  for  holding,  regulated  and 

restricted 176 

Records,  Bureau  of,  to  register  names  and  addresses  of  practising 

physicians 218 

Reformatory,  isolation  of  persons  having  infectious  diseases 96 

Refrigerator,  drain  pipe  from,  not  to  connect  with  soil  or  waste 

pipe .  .    280 

"  to  discharge  into  proper  sink 280 

Refusal  to  comply  with  Board  order  or  regulation 184 

Refuse,  butcher's,  not  to  be  brought  into  the  city 239 

"  "  u      u    u    conveyecj.    through    the   streets,    etc., 

without  a  permit 239 

"         defined 1 

"         factory  to  discharge  into  waters  of  the  city  below  low  water  274 

"        from  oyster  houses,  etc.,  to  be  removed  daily 247 

"         may  be  delivered  direct  to  proper  carts 250 

"         mixed  with  offensive  matter  not  to  be  used  to  fill  in  land .   252 

"         not  to  be  thrown  on  vacant  lot 251 

"         on  street  not  to  be  washed  into  the  sewer 311 

"         permit  required  for  collection,  transportation,  storing  or 

exposing 241 

"         to  be  bundled  or  secured  before  placing  for  removal.  .  .  .    248 
"  "     "   mixed  with  garabge,  etc.,  in  Borough  of  Richmond.  248 

"  "     "   removed  from  passenger  car  and  omnibus  daily ...  .   301 

"         when  to  be  removed  by  owner,  etc 248 

Registered  nurse,  who  shall  use  title 219 

Registration  of  practising  physicians  required 218 

"  "    sextons  with  Department  of  Health 43 

Regulations   for  boat  removing  offensive  matter  to  go  to  dock,  to 

be  observed 245 

"   burning  stra-n ,  hay,  contents  of  mattress  and  bed 

to  be  observed 242 

"    carting  and  storing  bones,  refuse  and  offensive 

material,  to  be  observed 241 

"    carting  offal,  butcher's  refuse  and  garbage  to  be 

observed 239 


[ndex  to  thi-;  Sanitary  Code  219 

Sections 
Regulations   for    cleaning  sink?,  privy  vaults  or  cesspools,  to  be 

observed 236 

■  ■    day  nurseries 108 

"  "    depositing  street  sweepings  to  be  observed 252 

■  ■    dumping  of  garbage,  manure,  offal  and  dirt  to  be 

observed 242 

"  "    hospitals  or  sanitariums  to  be  observed 220 

"  "    household  and  business  waste;    how  and  where 

applied 248 

a  "    leaching  cesspools,  privy  vaults,  school  sinks,  to 

be  observed 287 

"  "    stables  to  be  observed 58 

"  "   tent  or  camp  to  be  observed 217 

"  "    transporting  manure,  swill,  ashes,  garbage,  offal, 

etc.,  to  be  observed 240 

"  governing  board  and  care  of  children 197 

"                     "          duties  of  parents,  etc.,  regarding  vaccina- 
tion     199 

"  governing  physical  care  of  school  children 200 

"  "  practice  of  midwifery 196 

"  of  the  Board  of  Health  to  be  observed 1S4 

■  relative  to  heating  of  cars  and  omnibuses 304 

"  to  open  ground  containing  offensive  matter  to  be 

observed 232 

Removal  and  reporting  of  injured,  dead  or  contagiously  diseased 

animals 6 

"         of  ashes,  garbage,  liquid  waste,  paper  and  rubbish,  regu- 
lated     248 

"  "  cases  of  infectious  diseases 98 

"           "  contents  of  sinks,  privy  vaults   and   cesspools,  regu- 
lated      236 

■  "  contents  of  temporary  privies  required 2S5 

■  '  dead  animals  and   offensive  matter  to    be    removed 

quickly  and  without  offense 243 

"           "  infectious  disease  cases  authorized 97 

■  ■           "                "           ■       from  vessels,  permit  required.  355 
"          *           a                "           "         "            "        prohibited 354 

■  "  rabid  or  vicious  animals  regulated 10 

■  ■  shells  of  oysters,  clams,  etc.,  from  oyster-houses   re- 

quired     247 

■  "  skins,  hides,  rags,  straw,  bedding,  etc.,  from  vessels.  .   359 
Renovation  of  premises,  etc 101 


220  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Repairs  to  be  made  within  time  set 185 

Report  denned 1 

Reports  of  animals  injured,   dead  or  affected  by   contagion,   re- 
quired          6 

"  "  births,  duties  of  professional  attendants 31,  33 

"  "         "      to  be  filed  in  writing 31,  357 

a         a        a      -^hen  and  where  to  be  filed 31,  33,  357 

"  deaths  required  to  be  made 32,  33,  90,  357 

"  "  food  poisoning,  group  of  cases 93 

"  "  glanders,  farcy,  etc.,  by  veterinarians 2 

"        on   infectious   diseases   and  health   matters   by   masters, 

chief  officers  and  physicians  of  vessels 351 

"        infectious  diseases,  duty  of  hospitals  and  plrvsicians 86 

"        of  marriages  required  to  be  made 33,  34,  35,  36,  357 

"  "  persons  ill  with  infectious  diseases,  engaged  in  handling 

certain  food  products S6 

"  "  puerperal  septicaemia    91 

"  "  rabid  or  vicious  animals 10 

"  "  suppurative  conjunctivitis 91 

"  "  vessels  not  in  quarantine 353 

"  "  venereal  diseases 88 

Representatives  of  the  Health  Department  not  to  be  obstructed. .    186 

Resolution  of  Board  of  Health 185 

Restaurant,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"  conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

"  "  "  "  "   kitchens 149 

"  "  "  "  "   serving  rooms 149 

"  permit  required  to  operate 149 

"  term  defined 149 

Restrictions  for  driving  and  landing  cattle,  etc.,  in  Manhattan.  .  .    316 
Richmond  Borough,  regulations  for  disposal  of  ashes,  garbage,  etc.  248 

River,  no  blood,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,  allowed  to  go  therein 234 

"         "   sewage,  etc.,  to  enter,  except  below  low  water 274 

"       not  to  receive  contents  of  privy  vault,  cesspool,  cistern  or 

sink 235 

R.  N.,  restriction  in  use  of 219 

Roof,  connection  of  cast  iron  rain  leader  to 283 

"       no  animal  bedding  to  be  dried  thereon 242 

"       tanks,  construction  and  cleanliness  regulated 61 

"       tank  overflow,  to  discharge  on 280 

"       to  be  kept  in  good  repair 59 

Room  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 1S3 


Indkx  to  THE  Sanitary  Code  221 

tions 
Room  not  to  l"-  used  as  a  place  of  deeping  or  residence,  if  floor  be 

damp 54 

■  "    to  be  used  as  a  place  of  sleeping  or  residence,  if  o!T<n-ive 

odors  be  present 54 

■  where  food  or  drink  is  manufactured,  etc 147 

■  u          "      "       ■       "   prepared,  etc 148 

Rubbish,  boats  for,  require  permit  to  go  to  pier 2  \ 5 

u          defined 1 

■  dock  for  removal  of,  not  to  be  obstructed 246 

"          in  <  arts,  etc.,  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  building 244 

"          may  be  delivered  to  proper  carts 250 

"          must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense 243 

■  not  to  lie  piled  or  raked  in  street 243 

"          removal  of 250 

'          to  be  bundled  or  secured  before  placing  for  removal ....  248 

■  "    "    mixed  with  garbage,  etc.,  in  Borough  of  Richmond.  248 
"          when  to  be  removed  by  owner,  etc 248 

Rubella,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 94 

"          children  having  to  be  excluded  from  school 94 

Rules  governing  board  and  care  of  children 107 

■  "          conduct  of  day  nurseries 19$ 

"              "          duties  of  parents,  etc.,  regarding  vaccination.  ..  .  199' 

■  "          physical  care  of  school  children 2CK> 

"               "          practice  of  midwifery 196 

Safeguards  to  be  provided   for  theatres,  auditoriums,   assembly 

halls,  factories,  workrooms,  stores  and  offices 55 

Said  Board  defined 1 

Saloon  defined 1 

Saloons,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"         conduct  and  operation  of  dining  rooms 149 

"                       u                u                  u                u     kitcnens 14Q 

"                a           u            a           u  serving  rooms H9 

■         oyster,  to  be  kept  clean,  shells  and  offal  removed  daily  .  .  247 

Salt  marsh  land,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

"            u        "    ,  to  be  filled  or  drained 272 

Sanatoriums   required   to   isolate   persons   having   infectious   dis- 
eases   96 

Sand,  dry,  not  to  be  sieved,  agitated  or  exposed 253 

Sanitary  Code,  provisions  of,  to  be  obeyed 1S4 

■  "       punishment  for  violation  of 224 

"             ■       violation  thereof,  to  be  prevented 51 

Sanitarium,  permit  for,  required 220 


222  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Sausages,  manufacture  and  preparation 330 

Scarlet  fever,  cases  to  be  reported 86 

"  "       children  having,  to  be  excluded  from  school 94 

"  "       duties  of  undertakers  burying  persons  who  die  of. .  .    102 

"  "       public  funerals  prohibited 103 

Scholars,  precautions  respecting 57 

School  children,  regulations  governing  physical  care  of 200 

"       sink,  leaching  allowed  under  permit 287 

"  "      sides  and  bottom  to  be  watertight 287 

Schools,  exclusion  of  children  from 94 

"  "  teachers  and  instructors 95 

"         officers  of,  to  report  suppurative  conjunctivitis 91 

"         regulations  governing  physical  care  of  school  children.  . .  .    200 

"         common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"         condition  thereof,  regulated 57 

"         permit  to  conduct,  required 222 

Scouring  of  hides  and  leather  without  permit 328 

Scow,  loaded  with  garbage  not  to  remain  at  dock  over  twenty- 
four  hours 238 

"       loaded  with  manure,  etc.,  not  to  remain  at  dock  without 

permit 242 

Scrap,  heating,  drying,  or  storing,  not  to  be  conducted  without  a 
permit   in   the   Boroughs   of   Brooklyn,   Bronx,    Queens   and 

Richmond 324 

Scraping  of  street  before  washing  required 311 

Screening  of  privies  required 286 

"  "  temporary  privies  required 286 

Sea,  no  sewage,  etc.,  to  enter,  except  below  low  water 274 

Serum  distributed  by  the  Department  of  Health 121 

Sewage  to  discharge  into  waters  of  the  -city  below  low  water 274 

Sewer  connection  changes  in  affecting  other  premises,  regulated.. .    275 

"  "  for  any  premises,  to  be  adequate 276 

Sewerage,  changes  in,  affecting  other  premises,  regulated 275 

"  not  to  become  a  nuisance 1S3 

"  of  buildings  to  be  adequate 52 

Sewers,  no  blood,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,  allowed  to  go  therein 234 

"  "   tank,  overflow  to  discharge  into 280 

"        not  to  become  obstructed 273 

"           "      "  be  vented  by  brick,  sheet  metal,  earthenware,  chim- 
ney flue 282 

"        solid  matter  not  to  pass  into 311 

"        to  be  flushed ' 273 


iNDi.y  to  the  Sanitary  Code  223 

Sections 

Sewers,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Sextons  and  other  persons  not  to  dispose  of  bodies  without  a  per- 
mit  .  .  .  42 

"  ■     other  persons  to  return  permits  to  Department  of 

Health 42 

"        to  make  returns  of  burials 44 

"        ■  register  with  Bureau  of  Records 43 

Shaking  of  mats,  carpets  and  cloths  prohibited 253 

Sheep,  condemnation  and  destruction  authorized 137 

u        permit  required  to  keep  or  yard 11 

■  slaughtering  regulated 326 

"                  "             without  a  permit 325 

"        unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

Shell  burning  not  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Bor- 
oughs of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond 324 

"      fish,  adulterated;  term  adulterated  defined 171 

■  "     misbranded;       "      misbranded        "       171 

Shell-fish  sale  of  adulterated  or  misbranded,  prohibited 171 

"             "     regulated,  permit  required,  exception 164 

Shells  to  be  removed  daily  from  oyster-houses,  etc 247 

Shelter  for  animals,  site  and  conduct  to  be  approved  and  regu- 
lated   16 

Ships,  for  removal  of  offal,  etc.,  not  to  come  to  pier  without  per- 
mit   245 

Shop  classed  as  a  building 1S3 

Sidewalks,  cleaning  of,  regulated 33 

"           dogs  not  to  commit  nuisances  on 227 

"           no  animal  bedding  to  be  dried  thereon 242 

"             "         "       or  vehicle  to  be  taken  on 312 

"             '    water  from  building  to  run  over 271 

"           not  to  be  obstructed 53 

"           passage  under  for  water  to  reach  street 271 

"           spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 

u            to  be  kept  in  good  condition 53 

Sieving,  of  lime,  ashes,  coal,  dry  sand,  hair,  feathers,  etc..  pro- 
hibited   253 

Sinks,  contents  not  to  be  left  standing  near  occupied  bulld:ng.  .  .  .  2  1 1 

"  u  "     "    "    removed  without  permit 

"              "         of,  to  be  disinfected  before  removal 236 

■  no  offal,  ashes,  meat,  fish,  garbage,  etc.,  to  be  thrown  therein  237 

■  not  to  be  filled  within  two  feet  of  top -     • 

"         "     "  discharge  into  street  or  public  place 


224  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Sinks,  not  to  overflow 235 

"       proper,  to  be  provided  for  refrigerator  drip 280 

"       school,  leaching,  allowed  under  permit 287 

"        sides  and  bottom  to  be  watertight 287 

"       to  be  emptied  before  filling  with  dirt 235 

"        "     "  separately  trapped 278 

Sink  trap,  waste  pipe  of  washtub  may  connect  to 278 

Skimmed  milk,  adulterated;    distribution  prohibited;    term  adul- 
terated defined 173 

"      defined 1,173 

"      trades  and  designations  to  conform  to  grade  stand- 
ards .' 156,  157 

"      receptacles  used  in  sale  or  delivery  of;    use  regu- 
lated and  restricted 159 

"      sale  of,  regulated 155 

"         "      "     unwholesome,   unclean,   watered  or  adul- 
terated, prohibited 151 

"      seizure  and  destruction  authorized 153 

"  "      dried,  defined 1 

Skinning  of   dead   animals  prohibited  in   the   Borough   of   Man- 
hattan     323 

"  "  hides  and  leather  without  permit 328 

Skins,  etc.,  on  vessels,  removal  and  distribution  regulated 359 

Skylights  to  be  kept  in  good  repair 59 

Slaughtering  of  horses  regulated ; 327 

Sleeping  in  cellars,  bathrooms,  waterclosets,  apartments,  etc.,  pro- 
hibited       62 

"         in  cellars,  prohibited 54 

"  "  rooms  impregnated  with  offensive  odors  prohibited.  .  .      54 

"  "         °      with  damp  floors  prohibited 54 

u  "  tent  or  camp  without  permit,  prohibited 217 

Slips,  boats  for  removal  of  offal,  etc.,  not  to  go  into  without  per- 
mit      245 

Smallpox,  cases  to  be  reported 86 

"           duties  of  parents,  guardians,  etc.,  regarding  vaccina- 
tion     199 

"  duties  of  undertakers  in  burying  persons  who  died  of..  .    102 

"  exclusion  from  school  of  children  having 94 

"  public  funeral  prohibited 103 

Smeteny,  sale  of 152 

Smoke,  dense,  discharge  of,  prohibited 211 

Smoking  in  subway  prohibited 216 


Indi  \  to  the  Sanitary  Code  225 

Sections 

Sneezing,  persons  to  cover  nose  and  mouth  when 226 

Soil  pipe,  above  roof,  construction  and  location 281 

"        "      extended  above  roof  in  increased  diameter 281 

■  '      no  refrigerator  or  tank  to  connect  w  ith 280 

'        "        "             "            drain  pipe  to  connect  with 280 

■  "            trap  vent  pipe  to  be  used  as 278 

"        "      not  to  be  used  as  leader  or  connected  to 283 

■  '         "     "    ■    vented   by   brick,   sheet   metal,   earthenware, 

chimney  flue 2S2 

"        "      pipe  to  be  adequate 276 

"     pipes  of  cast  iron,  how  joints  in  are  to  be  made 279 

"         "       to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Spirits,  alcoholic,  distilling  of 332 

Spitting,  forbidden 213 

■          receptacles  to  be  provided 213 

Spittoons  to  be  provided 213 

Spring  water,  sale  of 165 

Stable  defined 1 

Stables,  permit  for,  required 5S 

Stairs,  railroad,  spitting  upon,  forbidden 213 

Stairway,  subway,  smoking  on,  prohibited 216 

Stall  not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

Stamping,  cold  storage  food 72 

Station,  spitting  upon  floor  of,  forbidden 213 

■         subway,  smoking  in,  prohibited 216 

Stationary  engine  not   to  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

Statements  not  to  be  false 187 

Steam,  discharge  of,  prohibited 212 

Stone  not  to  be  mixed  with  business  or  household  waste 248 

Store,  department,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

■  fish  or  oyster,  to  be  kept  clean,  and  shells,  etc.,  removed 

daily 247 

■  floor,  spitting  thereon,  forbidden 213 

not  to  be  overcrowded 56 

"       suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for 284 

"       to  be  kept  clean,  lighted,  ventilated  and  safeguarded 55 

Storing  of  bones,  refuse  and  offensive  material,  regulated  by  per- 
mit   241 

"         "  carts,  vehicles  and  implements,  handling  offensive  ma- 
terial, regulated 244 

Straw,  bedding  for  animals,  not  to  be  dried  on  street,  sidewalk 

or  roof 242 


226  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Straw,  on  vessels,  removal  and  distribution  regulated 359 

"        not  to  be  burnt  without  a  permit 242 

Streams,  no  sewage,  etc.,  to  enter  except  below  low  water 274 

Streets,  cleaning  and  washing  of,  regulated 311 

"         defined 1 

Street  Cleaning  Department  to  regulate  condition  of  receptacles 

for  garbage,  ashes,  etc 248 

Streets,  depositing  of  brick,  etc.,  thereon,  regulated 313 

"         dust  not  to  enter,  from  building  being  demolished,  etc.. .  .   253 

"         no  animal  bedding  to  be  dried  thereon 242 

"  "   blood,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,  allowed  to  go  therein 234 

"  "    bones,  refuse  or  offensive  material  to  be   carted  in, 

without  permit 241 

"  "   garbage,  etc.,  to  lie  raked  or  piled  thereon 243 

"          "    offal,  butcher's  refuse  or  garbage  to  be  carted  in  with- 
out permit 239 

"  "    offensive  matter,  or  liquid,  to  be  allowed  therein 233 

"         not  to  be  blocked  or  obstructed 312 

"         particles  of  cloth,  yarn,  etc.,  not  to  enter 253 

"        privy  vault,   cesspool,   cistern,   or  sink  not  to   discharge 

therein 235 

"         spitting  therein,  forbidden 213 

Street-sweepings  must  be  removed  quickly  and  without  offense. .  .   243 

not  to  be  deposited  without  a  permit 252 

"      "he  raked  or  piled  in  street 243 

Strength  of  buildings  to  be  adequate 52 

"  "  school  house,  gymnasium  and  place  of  public  worship, 

regulated 57 

Substance  deposited  in  street  not  to  obstruct  gutter 313 

"  offensive,  not  permitted  on  premises 231 

"  transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 240 

"  solid,  not  to  be  washed  into  sewer 311 

Substances,  liable  to  be  blown  by  wind,  not  to  be  sieved,  agitated 

or  exposed 253 

Subway,  smoking  in,  prohibited 216 

"  spitting     "  "  216 

Sunken  lot,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

"  "     to  be  fenced 251 

a  u      a     u  fir]ecj  or  drained 272 

Superintendents  of  cemeteries  to  register  with  Bureau  of  Records.     43 

"  "  crematories  "        "  "  "         "         "         .     43 

to  make  return  of  cremations 44 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 

Swamps,  mosquitoes  not  to  be  permitted  to  breed  in 272 

"  to  be  rilled  in  or  drained 272 

Sweeping,  dry,  of  public  vehicles  or  places  in  prohibited 301 

iy  be  mixed  with  garbage,  etc.,  in  Borough  of  Rich- 
mond     248 

"  street,  not  to  be  deposited  without  a  permit 252 

8  yard,  not  to  be  mixed  with  business  or  household  wa-- 

Sweetened  concentrated  milk,  defined 1 

"  condensed  milk,  defined 1 

"  "  skimmed  milk,  defined 1 

8  evaporated  milk,  defined 1 

Swill  boiling  »ot  to  be  conducted  without  a  permit  in  the  Boroughs 

of  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens  and  Richmond 234 

•     in  carts  not  to  be  left  near  occupied  building 244 

"      not  allowed  on  public  street  or  place 233 

8      transportation  of,  regulated  by  permit 240 

Swine,  inspection  of  carcasses  of,  required,  exception 172 

8        permit  required  to  yard  or  keep 11 

8        slaughtering  regulated 326 

"  8  without  a  permit 325 

Syphilis,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 88 

88 

8        circulars  to  be  distributed  to  persons  suffering  with 88 

Table  water,  permit  to  manufacture 165 

Talc,  use  prohibited  in  confectionery 139 

Tanks  for  holding  water,  construction  and  maintenance  regulated.  61 
8  open,  water  supplied  to  receive  overflow  of  other  tanks. . .  .  2S0 
8       overflow  pipe,  not  to  discharge  into  soil  or  waste  pipe, 

watercloset,  drain  or  sewer 280 

8       use  for  any  beverage  or  drink 145 

Tanning  of  hides  and  leather  without  permit 328 

Taps,  use  for  any  beverage  or  drink 145 

Tar,  manufacture  of 332 

8  "  regulated  and  restricted 333 

Teachers,  duties  of,  in  schools,  etc 57 

8  and  Instructors,  with  certain  diseases,  excluded 95 

"  regulations  governing  physical  care  fo  school  children.  .   200 

Temperature  of  milk 152 

"  "  schools,  gymnasiums  and  places  of  public  worship, 

regulated 57 

8  '  surface  cars  and  omnibuses  during  certain  months, 

regulated 304 


228       Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Temperature,  proper  degree  thereof  to  be  maintained  in  theatres, 

factories,  workrooms  etc 55 

Tenant,  liability  for  nuisance  or  violation  of  Sanitary  Code 51 

not  to  allow  premises  to  become  a  nuisance 53 

"         of  building  not  to  allow  anything  dangerous  to  be  done.  .      52 
"         to  abate  nuisance  or  prevent  violation  of  Sanitary  Code..      51 

"  "  comply  with  order  of  the  Board  of  Health 51 

Tenement  houses,  persons  having  infectious  diseases  not  to  engage 

in  manufacturing  in 99 

Tent  classed  as  a  building 183 

"      not  to  be  erected  without  permit 217 

Terra  alba,  use  prohibited  in  confectionery • 139 

Tetanus,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 86 

Theatre,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

"  defined 1 

"  floor,  spitting  thereon  forbidden 213 

Theatres  to  be  kept  clean,  lighted,  ventilated  and  safeguarded..  .  .      55 

Therapeutic  serum,  labeling 116 

Tobacco,  manufacture,  sorting  and  handling 338 

Toilet  preparations,  hair  dyes,  etc.,  regulated 128 

Tow  els,  common,  prohibited 214 

Toxin,  labeling 116 

Trachoma,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 86 

Trade,  offensive  or  noisome 322 

Training    School   required   to   isolate   persons   having   infectious 

diseases 96 

Transportation  of  bones,  refuse  and  offensive  material,  regulated 

by  permit 241 

"  cattle  in  vehicles 11 

"  garbage,  on  boats  and  scows  to  Barren  Island, 

regulated 238 

"  manure,  swill,  ashes,  garbage  and    offal   regu- 
lated     240 

"  "  offal,  butcher's  refuse  and  garbage  regulated.  .  .    239 

"  offensive   material  through   street,   not    to    be 

delayed 244 

Traps  for  rain  leaders,  when  and  where  located 283 

"       not  to  be  ventilated  by  brick,  sheet  metal  or  earthenware, 

chimney  flue 282 

"       of  waterclosets,  no  tank  overflow  to  discharge  in 280 

"        "  "  "    waste  pipe  of  other  fixture  to  connect 

to ' 278 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code  229 

Sections 

Traps, separate,  to  be  provided  for  each  plumbing  fixture 278 

"       to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

■  ■     "   within  two  feet  of  the  fixture 278 

■  vent  pipe,  not  to  be  used  as  a  soil  or  waste  pipe 278 

Trichinosis,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 86 

Tuberculin  test  of  cows,  certificate 13 

Tuberculosis  (.pulmonary,  meningeal),  cases  of,  to  be  reported. ...  86 

"             children  having  to  be  excluded  from  school 94 

Tubes,  to  be  separately  trapped 278 

Typhoid  fever,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 86 

Typhus      "           "       ■     "    "         "        86 

"            "       duties  of  undertakers  burying  persons  who  died  of.  102 

"            "       public  funeral  prohibited,  of  persons  who  died  of..  .  103 

Undertaking,  practice  of,  regulated 46 

Undertakers,  duties  of 102 

"              to  register  with  Bureau  of  Records 43 

Unloading,  of  carts,  etc.,  with  offensive  matter,  regulated 244 

"  "  dead  animals,  etc.,  to  be  done  quickly  and  without 

offense 243 

Untruthful  statements,  prohibited 187 

Unwholesome  substances,  not  to  be  used  as  food 141 

Urine,  not  allowed  on  public  street  or  place 233 

Urinal,  to  be  separately  trapped 27S 

Use  of  docks,  piers  and  bulkheads,  by  offal  contractor,  regulated..  246 

Utensils,  common  use  prohibited 143 

"          use  of  cooking,  eating,  and  drinking 144 

Vacant  lot,  excavated  or  sunken,  to  be  fenced 251 

"  "no  garbage,  refuse  or  offensive  material  to  be  thrown 

in 251 

"          "     to  be  kept  clean  and  free  of  water 251 

Vaccination    of    children,    and    others,    duties    of    parents,    guar- 
dians, etc 199 

Vaccine,  distributed  by  the  Department  of  Health 121 

"          distribution  of '.  .  121 

Vapors,  offensive  or  deleterious 332 

"         removal  by  suction  devices 339 

Varicella  (chicken-pox),  cases  of,  to  be  reported 86 

"          (           "           ),  exclusion  from  school  of  children  having..  94 

Varnish,  boiling  of 332 

Vault  contents,  not  to  be  left  standing  near  occupied  building.  .  .  .  244 

"              "              "      "     "  removed  without  permit 236 

"             "          to  be  disinfected  before  removal 236 


230  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Vault,  no  offal,   ashes,   meat,   fish,   garbage,   etc.,   to   be  thrown 

therein 237 

8      not  to  be  filled  within  two  feet  of  top 235 

8         «     «  discharge  into  street  or  public  place 235 

8         "     "  overflow 235 

"      privy,  leaching,  allowed  under  permit 287 

8           "       not  to  remain  or  be  built  when  avoidable 287 

"           "       sides  and  bottom  to  be  watertight 287 

8           a       to  be  screened  from  flies 285 

B      temporary  privy,  contents  to  be  disinfected  and  removed.  .  285 
"                8              "        to     be     provided      during      construction 

work 285 

8      to  be  emptied  before  filling  with  dirt 235 

■      not  to  be  opened  without  permit 45 

Vegetable  and  fruit  store,  conduct  and  maintenance 150 

8  matter,  heating,  drying,  or  storing  not  to  be  conducted 

without  a  permit,  in  the  Boroughs  of  Brooklyn, 

Bronx,  Queens,  and  Richmond 324 

8  matter,  offensive;   boats  removing,  require  permit  to  go 

to  dock 245 

8          not  to  be  sold  under  false  name  or  quality 140 

Vegetables,  condemnation  and  destruction  authorized 137 

"             defined 163 

healthy,  fresh,  sound  and  wholesome 163 

"             inspection  of,  authorized 136 

"             unfit  for  use  as  human  food 137 

Vehicles,  cleaning  of  public,  regulated 301 

"          containing  manure,  swill,  etc.,  not  to  stand  near  build- 
ing    244 

8  for  offensive  materials,  to  be  cleaned  and  stored  without 

offense 244 

"             "   transporting  cattle 15 

8          motor,  not  to  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

"      '    noise  from  motor,  prohibited 229 

8          not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

u             u      u    u   -j-^gQ  Up0I1  sidewalk  or  footpath 312 

Venereal  disease,  circulars  to  be  delivered  by  physicians  to  pa- 
tients suffering  with 88 

8         diseases,  duties  of  hospitals  and  dispensaries  to  report.  . .  88 

8                8          employment  of  persons  in  food  establishments.  146 

Vent  pipe,  above  roof;  construction  and  location 281 

8         8      extended  above  roof  in  increased  diameter 281 


Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code       231 

'  Sections 

Vent  pipe,  not  to  be  used  as  or  connected  with  leader 283 

or  trap,  not  to  be  used  as  a  soil  or  waste  pipe 278 

"     pipe.-,  lead.  Imw  connected 27fl 

■  '       shall  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

Ventilation,  for  cattle 11 

of  all  premises,  to  be  maintained 183 

■  "  buildings  for  dwellings,  to  be  sufficient 54 

■  ■  "  to  be  adequate 

■  "  railroad  passenger  cars  and  omnibuses,  to  be  good 

and  adequate,  and  so  maintained 303 

"  ■  schools,  gymnasiums  and  places  of  public  worship, 

regulated 57 

■  "  sewers  and  plumbing;   materials  not  to  be  used  for.  282 
"  soil,  waste  and  vent  pipes,  not  to  create  a  nuisance.  281 

"  "  waterclosets  and  privies,  required _'>4 

"  to  be  provided  for  theatres,  auditoriums,  assembly 

halls,  factories,  workrooms,  stores  and  offices. ...      55 

Vessels,  discharge  of  cargoes,  regulated 35S 

"  ■  "    cinders,  dust,  gas,  steam,  or  offensive  odors 

from,  prohibited 212 

"         duties  of  masters,  chief  officers  and  physicians,  to  report 

on  health  matters 351 

"         for  removal  of  offal,  etc.,  not  to  go  to  pier  without   per- 
mit     245 

■  from  infected  ports,  liable  to  quarantine 352 

■  loaded  with  manure,  garbage,  etc.,  not  to  remain  at  dock 

without  permit 242 

■  noises  from,  prohibited 361 

"         not  quarantined,  daily  reports 353 

a  *    to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

"  "     ■  discharge  dense  smoke 211 

"         permits  to  remove  infectious  disease  case 355 

prohibited  from  casting  bedding,  etc.,  into  public  waters..  356 

removal  of  infectious  disease  cases,  prohibited 354 

'                  "       "  skins,  hides,  rags,  straw  and  bedding  regulated.  359 
Veterinary  Surgeons,  to  report  glanders,  farcy,  and  other  con- 
tagious diseases 2 

Violations,  of  the  Sanitary  Code,  defined 1S4 

Violation  of  Sanitary  Code,  punishment  for 224 

"           ■          '             "       to  be  prevented 51 

Virus,  labeling 116 

Walls,  to  be  cleaned  and  whitewashed 60 


232  .     Index  to  the  Saxitary  Code 

Sections 

Walls,  to  be  kept  in  good  repair 59 

"Washbasin,  to  be  separately  trapped 278 

Washroom,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

public,  defined 214 

Washing,  of  street,  regulated 311 

Washtrays,  to  be  separately  trapped 278 

Washtubs,     "     "           ■                 "         278 

"            may  connect  to  inlet  of  sink  trap 278 

Waste,  business,  not  to  be  mixed  with  household  waste,  grass, 

leaves,  etc 248 

"        business,  to  be  removed  daily 248 

"        from  any  fixture,  not  to  connect  to  watercloset  trap 278 

"        household,  not  to  be  mixed   with  business  waste,  grass, 

leaves,  etc 248 

"        liquid,  receptacles  not  to  be  disturbed 249 

8        pipe,  above  roof;  construction  and  location 281 

"      extended  above  roof  in  increased  diameter 281 

"       of  cast  iron;  how  joints  in  are  to  be  made 279 

"        "  hydrant,  must  be  separately  trapped 278 

"      lead;  how  connected 279 

"      no  refrigerator  drain  pipe,  to  connect  with 280 

or  tank,  to  connect  with 280 

"           "       "    trap  vent  pipe  to  be  used  as 278 

"       not  to  be  used  as  or  connected  with  leader 283 

«        "      "     "    vented  by  brick,  sheet  metal,  earthenware, 

chimney  flue 282 

"        pipes,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repairs 277 

"        receptacles,  regulated  as  to  weight  and  contents 248 

"        substances,  to  be  kept  in  separate  metal  receptacles 248 

Water,  carbonated,  permit  to  manufacture  and  sell 165 

"        care  of 169 

°        from  building,  not  to  cross  sidewalk  or  curb 271 

'      wells ■ 168 

"          "       not  to  be  used  without  a  permit 168 

"        intended  for  human  consumption 167 

"        not  to  be  allowed  to  become  a  nuisance 183 

"           "     "    a          "          "  collect  on  vacant  lots 251 

"        offensive,  not  permitted  on  premises 231 

"        pipes,  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  repair 277 

u        provided  for  cattle 11 

".       stagnant,  to  be  removed  or  treated  to  prevent  mosquito 

,                 breeding : 272 


[ndex  to  the  Sanitary  Code  233 

Sections 

Water,  sufficient  to  flush  sewers,  to  be  used 273 

■  tanks,  construction  and  cleanliness  regulated 61 

Watercloset  apartment,   no  one   permitted   to   sleep   or    remain 

therein 02 

"            to  be  separately  trapped 278 

u            trap;  no  tank  overflow  to  discharge  in 280 

■         '    waste  pipe  of  other  fixture  to  connect  to..  .  278 

"            maintenance  of 284 

■            odors  from 284 

to  be  provided  for  factories,  dwellings,  etc 284 

Waters,  of  the  city,  no  blood,  offal,  garbage,  etc.,  allowed  to  go 

therein 234 

"          "  the  city,  not  to  receive  contents  of  privy  vaults,  cess- 
pools, cistern  or  sink . 235 

■  public,  prohibiting  straw  bedding,   clothing,  etc.,   to  be 

cast  into  them 356 

Water  supply,  public,  to  be  protected 166 

Weeds,  poisonous 221 

Weight,  of  receptacles  for  ashes,  garbage,  etc.,  regulated 248 

Well  water,  use  of 168 

Wharf,  street  sweepings,  not  to  be  deposited  on  without  a  permit.  252 

Whitewashing,  of  walls  and  ceilings,  required 60 

Wholesomeness,  of  dwellings,  required 54 

Whooping  cough,  cases  of,  to  be  reported 86 

"               "        children  having,  to  be  excluded  from  school.  ...  94 

Window,  sewer  or  cesspool  connected  leader  near,  to  be  trapped.  .  282 

Windows,  to  be  kept  in  good  repair 59 

Wine  saloon,  common  towel  in,  prohibited 214 

Winter  months;     heating   of  surface   cars   or  omnibuses   during, 

regulated 304 

Wiped  joint,  when  used 279 

Wood  alcohol,  sale  regulated 124 

"             '         to  be  labeled 124 

u         poisoning,  to  be  reported 92,  106 

■       naphtha,  sale  regulated 124 

■          to  be  labeled 124 

"          (methyl  alcohol),  poisoning,  to  be  reported 92 

Workroom,  not  to  be  overcrowded 56 

to  be  kept  clean,  lighted,  ventilated  and  safeguarded..  55 
Workrooms,  suitable  and  adequate  privies  or  waterclosets  for 

Worship,  condition  of  place  of,  regulated .">7 

Wrought  iron  pipe,  how  connections  of  are  to  be  made 279 


234  Index  to  the  Sanitary  Code 

Sections 
Yard  sweepings,   not   to   be   mixed   with   business   or   household 

waste 248 

Yarding  of  cattle 11 

Y'arn,  particles  therefrom,  not  to  enter  street  or  occupied  build- 
ing      253 

Yellow  fever 103 

Zoolak,  milk  used  in  preparation  of 156 

"         quality  of  products,  regulated 158 


